[1] The Federal Court unanimously dismissed the motion for leave to appeal to Federal Court filed by Genting Malaysia Berhad ("Genting"). This case emanates from a judicial review application ("JR") filed by Genting in the High Court against three Respondents, namely Personal Data Protection Commissioner (1st Respondent), Personal Data Protection Deputy Commissioner (2nd Respondent) and the Director General of Inland Revenue (3rd Respondent) ("DGIR").

[2] The JR was allowed against all the Respondents and all the Respondents had appealed to the Court of Appeal. However, the 1st and 2nd Respondents had later withdrawn their respective appeal and thus, leaving the DGIR as the remaining appellant before the Court of Appeal.

[3] The dispute which led to the JR began in 2018 when the DGIR requested Genting to provide the personal data of members of Genting Rewards Loyalty Programme. The request was refused by Genting on the b