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Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law

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·Published 2026-09-23·Checked by 管理员 on 2026-09-25

Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 91/2025/QH15) and Decree No. 356/2025/ND-CP, effective January 1, 2026, require organizations to establish and maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPA).

What it means for you

  • Companies must establish and maintain Records of Processing Activities to meet compliance requirements
  • Need to address the labor-intensive nature of manual RoPA preparation
  • Must consider data sovereignty requirements, avoiding cloud models for sensitive data processing
  • What to do

    ComplianceEstablish a Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) system
    EngineeringEvaluate the feasibility of locally deployed LLM solutions
    LegalEnsure RoPA system compliance with Vietnam's data protection regulations

    Key dates

    2026-01-01In force
    2026-09-23Published

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    The core result is that a quantized local model can match a cloud API on Vietnamese compliance extraction, removing the data-sovereignty objection that blocks LLM use under privacy law. Compliance teams and legal-tech builders in Vietnam face a 1 January 2026 deadline, and this shows a single 24 GB GPU suffices for the workload. The unmeasured value-level precision and mid-range token coverage are caveats to weigh before deployment.

    arXiv: DeepSeek@To Duy Hinh et al. (4)Source
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