The National Assembly of Belize has published a draft of its proposed privacy law: the Belize Data Protection Bill. Broadly speaking, the Bill, builds on the work of its Caribbean neighbors by going further, in terms of its overall scope and implementation requirements. Cliffs Notes I have included, below, a few observations following an initial…
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Jamaica appoints privacy regulator – Information Commissioner
Jamaica has appointed Celia Barclay as its first Data Protection Commissioner, effective December 1, 2021
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…
Cayman privacy regulator issues 3 enforcement orders
Slew of new enforcement orders issued by the privacy regulator for the Cayman Islands.
Cayman Updates its Privacy Law
In April 2021, the Cayman Islands published an updated Data Protection Act, 2021. This news is not as exciting as it may seem at first blush. The updated DPA is virtually the same as the 2017 version. In my view there are only two amendments worth noting:1. All references to the Information Commissioner in the…
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.
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.
[Quoted] Global Data Review article on the Eastern Caribbean States accessing Facebook’s disaster mapping technology
Global Data Review recently reached out for comments on a recently announced collaboration between the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and Facebook. Under the initiative, the OECS will have access to Facebook’s Disaster Maps feature in the event of natural disasters. Links: Read the Global Data Review article here [subscription required]; a copy of the…
Barbados Data Protection Bill 2019
A new draft of the proposed Barbados Data Protection Bill has been circulated. See a copy here.
[Presentation] Data Protection: What Service Providers Should Know – Bimtech Digital Forum 2018
I was one of the speakers at the Bimtech Digital Forum 2018. The forum focused on pertinent considerations for service sector entities participating in the digital economy. The forum was put on by the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries (BCSI) which is dedicated to the acceleration of service sector development and enhancing the export potential of service…