Grenada’s #DataPrivacy law now means that 3 out of every four territories in the Caribbean have a privacy law on the books.
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Guyana publishes draft privacy law for comments
What: Guyana Data Protection Bill open for comments. Deadline: May 3, 2023 How: submit comments via email to draftingconsultations.mla@gmail.com and/or agchambersmola@gmail.com Quick impressions: A copy of the Bill as at April 16, 2023 is available on the Government’s website and below.
Saint Lucia brings its privacy law into force
Earlier this year, a proclamation order was issued, partially proclaiming the Saint Lucia Data Protection Act Cap 8:18 and bringing key provisions of the law into effect.
Status of Data Privacy Laws in the Caribbean [January 2022]
In honour of Data Privacy Day 2022, I have put together this post on recent developments in privacy law in the Commonwealth Caribbean.* I did a prior version of this post in 2021. You can read that here. The list has been updated to include references to Anguilla and Montserrat, bringing the total number of…
🇧🇧Barbados has appointed its first privacy regulator
What happened? The Government of Barbados has appointed Ms. Lisa Greaves as the country’s first Data Protection Commissioner. The official notice in last month’s Gazette indicates that Ms. Greaves’ appointment to the post is effective from July 15, 2021 and comes a few months after the Government brought the majority of the Barbados Data Protection…
Data Protection: BVI has entered the chat!
The House of Assembly passed a set of digital society legislation, including a data privacy law, last month.
Barbados’ advanced privacy law now enforceable
March 31, 2021. A proclamation issued a few days earlier has fixed that date to mark the Barbados Data Protection Act, 2019-29 coming into effect. Put another way: March 31 is when the privacy compliance landscape in Barbados will change immutably.
Status of Data Privacy Laws in the Caribbean [Feb 2021]
With the recent activities around operationalising data privacy laws in Barbados and Jamaica, I thought it would be a good time to provide an update on the status of privacy laws in the Commonwealth Caribbean*, generally. I have also included, where applicable, recent privacy-related developments in the relevant jurisdictions. TL;DR – Six jurisdictions are without…
Barbados and Jamaica closer to operationalising new privacy laws
Both Barbados and Jamaica passed substantive data protection laws in the past 18 months. Neither jurisdiction has, however, taken the relevant procedural steps to actually make their privacy laws enforceable.
BVI tables cyber laws
The Government of the British Virgin Islands has tabled a number of bills in its parliament aimed at enhancing the digital economy. The suite of proposed legislation covers data privacy, the facilitation of electronic filings via government institutions, electronic commerce (electronic transactions, documents and signatures) and digital payments.