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Jamaica’s New Privacy Protection Bill

Data Matters

On 10 October 2017, Jamaica introduced into its House of Parliament a comprehensive Bill for privacy and data protection, entitled “An Act to Protect the Privacy of Certain Data and for Connected Matters.” If passed, the new law will be named the “Data Protection Act, 2017.” .

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Withdrawal from the EU means that we stand to lose the institutional platform from which we have exercised that influence. It seems odd to have more clarity post Brexit than pre-Brexit.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Fear not for Comcast’s margins, however, because by 2017, Comcast will have become a major streaming competitor in its own right. Predictions 2011.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But by year’s end folks will realize that antitrust suits are essentially kabuki, an exercise designed to go nowhere and maintain the status quo. Predictions 2017. 2017: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Please, MAKE IT SO. Africa rising, China…in question. Predictions 2019. 2019: How I did.

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