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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

We want businesses to ensure that their customers and future customers have consented to having their personal data processed, but we also need to ensure that the enormous potential for new data rights and freedoms does not open us up to new threats. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter?

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