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.

May 13, 2022
May 13, 2022

Don’t normalise living in fear

Bangladesh is a nation that is being carried almost entirely by the labour of its underprivileged and uneducated people, who slave away at garment factories and toil abroad to send back remittances.

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