Data Protection Act

Law Review / Revisiting the Draft Personal Data Protection Act 2023

In digital age, personal data fuels the online ecosystem while also raising privacy concerns. To address this issue, Bangladesh aims to strengthen its data privacy framework by adopting the draft Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (PDPA).

Communication surveillance versus right to privacy: Where do our laws stand?

Communication surveillance can be intrusive and benign, like secretly installing Pegasus malware onto a digital device.

How can abuse of privacy be legal?

Authorities must address concerns about the draft Data Protection Act

Data Protection Act: Everyone dealing with citizens’ data must register

The government will maintain a publicly available register of all organisations and persons collecting and processing data, and the purpose for which data is being processed.

Why the Draft Data Protection Act is concerning

Ambiguity, inadequate protection for sensitive data, and excessive control.

Data Protection Act: Constitutional rights of citizens are at risk

The draft data protection law will not only interfere with the citizens’ constitutional rights but will also negatively impact the economy in irredeemable ways, speakers at a roundtable in the capital said yesterday.

How can breaching citizens’ privacy be lawful?

We should be concerned about the deployment of surveillance tech without any judicial oversight

Data localisation will cost Bangladesh

Bangladeshi policymakers have a lot at stake in enacting data policies.

Journalists can give feedback on draft of data protection act by 10 days: Palak

Journalists will get 10 days to submit their opinions about the draft of the proposed Data Protection Act 2022, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for ICT, said today.

December 20, 2024
December 20, 2024

Revisiting the Draft Personal Data Protection Act 2023

In digital age, personal data fuels the online ecosystem while also raising privacy concerns. To address this issue, Bangladesh aims to strengthen its data privacy framework by adopting the draft Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (PDPA).

February 4, 2024
February 4, 2024

Communication surveillance versus right to privacy: Where do our laws stand?

Communication surveillance can be intrusive and benign, like secretly installing Pegasus malware onto a digital device.

April 18, 2023
April 18, 2023

How can abuse of privacy be legal?

Authorities must address concerns about the draft Data Protection Act

March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023

Data Protection Act: Everyone dealing with citizens’ data must register

The government will maintain a publicly available register of all organisations and persons collecting and processing data, and the purpose for which data is being processed.

March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023

Why the Draft Data Protection Act is concerning

Ambiguity, inadequate protection for sensitive data, and excessive control.

March 2, 2023
March 2, 2023

Data Protection Act: Constitutional rights of citizens are at risk

The draft data protection law will not only interfere with the citizens’ constitutional rights but will also negatively impact the economy in irredeemable ways, speakers at a roundtable in the capital said yesterday.

January 18, 2023
January 18, 2023

How can breaching citizens’ privacy be lawful?

We should be concerned about the deployment of surveillance tech without any judicial oversight

December 14, 2022
December 14, 2022

Data localisation will cost Bangladesh

Bangladeshi policymakers have a lot at stake in enacting data policies.

August 10, 2022
August 10, 2022

Journalists can give feedback on draft of data protection act by 10 days: Palak

Journalists will get 10 days to submit their opinions about the draft of the proposed Data Protection Act 2022, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for ICT, said today.

August 5, 2022
August 5, 2022

No frameworks for ‘Digital’ Bangladesh!

Do our policymakers even understand how data works?