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GDPR Awareness

A Malaysian company does not need an office in Europe to fall under the General Data Protection Regulation. Selling to customers in the EU, or processing EU personal data on behalf of a client who does, is enough to bring the regulation into play. This day is built for teams in that position: what triggers application, which obligations are genuinely different from the Malaysian PDPA, and how to close the gap without rebuilding a compliance programme from scratch.

Programme Agenda

When GDPR Reaches a Malaysian Company

Territorial scope under Article 3. Offering goods or services to people in the EU, monitoring their behaviour, and acting as a processor for an EU controller. Working through borderline cases rather than assuming exposure or dismissing it.

Controller, Processor and Why the Label Matters

How the roles are determined by who decides purposes and means rather than by what the contract says. The different obligations attaching to each, and joint controllership.

Lawful Basis, Not Just Consent

The six lawful bases and why defaulting to consent creates problems. Legitimate interests and the balancing test, contractual necessity, and the special rules for sensitive categories of data.

Data Subject Rights in Practice

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. One-month response timelines, identity verification, and handling a request that would expose another person's data.

Transferring Data Out of the EU

Adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, and the transfer impact assessment that follows from them. What a Malaysian recipient is expected to have in place.

Breach Notification and Accountability

The 72-hour notification duty to a supervisory authority, notification to individuals, and the accountability principle that requires you to be able to demonstrate compliance rather than merely achieve it.

GDPR Against the Malaysian PDPA

A clause-level comparison of the points that matter: lawful basis versus consent, the right to erasure, data protection impact assessments, processor obligations and penalty exposure. Where PDPA compliance already carries you, and where it does not.

Gap Workshop

Participants assess their own processing against the obligations covered and produce a prioritised list of the changes GDPR would require beyond what they already do.

Learning Outcomes:
Determine whether and how GDPR applies to your processing activities
Classify your organisation as controller or processor for each activity
Select and document an appropriate lawful basis rather than defaulting to consent
Handle the full set of data subject rights within the one-month timeline
Identify the transfer mechanism required for data moving from the EU to Malaysia
Meet the 72-hour breach notification duty and evidence accountability
Name the specific points where GDPR requires more than the Malaysian PDPA

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Data protection officers, compliance and legal staff, IT and marketing managers, and business owners at companies with EU customers, EU clients, or European group entities. Malaysian outsourcing and shared service operators processing EU data on behalf of clients are a common audience.

PDPA compliance covers part of the ground but not all of it. Lawful basis beyond consent, the right to erasure, data protection impact assessments and the accountability principle have no direct PDPA equivalent, and the transfer rules run in the opposite direction. The comparison module is there specifically to show you the delta.

The UK regime is addressed where it diverges, which matters mainly for transfer mechanisms and the separate UK adequacy position. The bulk of the obligations are common to both.

No. It is practical compliance training. Specific questions about your exposure, particularly around establishment and transfer arrangements, should go to qualified counsel.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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