Privacy-based Approach to Personal Data Protection Policy on Online Public Service Platforms in Vietnam Today

Abstract

Expanding and moving towards online public service coverage is the basic criterion of digital government development in the National Digital Transformation program in Vietnam to 2025, with orientation to 2030. To provide online public services, the state needs to collect personal data of users. This poses a requirement to protect personal data, to avoid exposing personal data online. With a privacy-based approach, the article focuses on evaluating personal data protection policies on the basis of online public services in Vietnam today, thereby proposing ideas for policy development in the future. Keywords: Privacy, Personal data protection, Personal data protection policy, Public services, Online public services, Digital transformation