Smart home user's information in cloud system: A comparison between Malaysian personal data protection act 2010 and EU general data protection regulation

• Main Authors: Basarudin, Noor Ashikin, Yeon, Asmah Laili, Mohamed Yusoff, Zuryati, Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal, Mahdzir, Nazli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM) 2017
• Subjects: K Law (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/23141/1/MCRJ%20Special%20Issue%202%202%20%202017.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/23141/; http://www.cream.my/main/index.php/publication/download-mcrj#
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Security of data in cloud system plays a significant role in ensuring trust from the users. It is also a method of warranting well working system in a smart concept of house by offering numbers of services to the home owner especially in data management and data storage. However, immense of benefits offered by the cloud system are associated with numbers of uncertainties which has created the issue of confidentiality and data safety.This article adopts doctrinal legal study that analyses the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 on the aspect of protection conferred to the cloud users and with reference to additional point that is well addressed in European Union General Data Protection Regulation.The overall finding shows that there is still loopholes in the Act which need to be looked into for the purpose of improving as well as to cater the needs of legal policy in protecting personal data of smart home users in cloud.