Proposed Singapore Data Protection Law: Consultation on Do-Not-Call Registry

01 Nov 2011

The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (“MICA”) has issued a consultation paper relating to the setting-up of a Do-Not-Call (“DNC”) registry. This follows favourable feedback on this proposal, which was earlier raised in MICA’s consultation on setting up a consumer data protection framework in Singapore.

With the establishment of a national DNC registry, all organisations which send marketing messages would have to check their telephone number lists against the DNC registry to ensure that they do not make calls to any telephone numbers which have been registered. Public feedback is sought on: the scope of coverage of the DNC registry, the design of the DNC registry (including how phone numbers are to be registered and how organisations are to check the register), and the implementation of the DNC regime.

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