Data protection rules governing the country's public sector will be harmonised with those for the private sector, in the first major revision to address longstanding criticisms that private companies are subject to stricter measures.
The seeming gap in the two sets of data protection measures became starker after a series of public-sector breaches involving sensitive data of patients and students.
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