Compliance with the Personal Data Protection Decree in Vietnam - Compliance Brief

The Vietnamese Government announced the Personal Data Protection Decree (Decree 13/2023/ND-CP) on April 17, 2023, and it comes into effect in July 2023. Before the issuance of the Decree, personal data protection in Vietnam was governed by 19 different laws and regulations, including general laws such as the Civil Code 2015 (November 24, 2015) and the Law on Cyber Information Security No. 86/2015/QH13 (November 19, 2015) ('LCS') and sectoral laws. The PDPD aims to fill these gaps in the fragmented legal framework and to pro-vide a comprehensive and consistent approach to personal data protection, extending safeguards for personal data to over 97 million people in Vietnam.