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SG: School’s random drug test not in breach of law, says PDPC

Posted on June 6, 2019June 24, 2025 by Dissent

K.C. Vijayan reports:

A test case decided by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has clarified how random drug tests for international school students stand with data protection laws here.

The commission held, after a probe into a parent’s complaint about his son’s hair sample being taken by the German European School Singapore (GESS), that there was no breach of the relevant data protection laws here.

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