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 can be intrusive and benign, like secretly installing Pegasus malware onto a digital device.

Authorities must address concerns about the draft Data Protection Act

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.

Ambiguity, inadequate protection for sensitive data, and excessive control.

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.

We should be concerned about the deployment of surveillance tech without any judicial oversight

Bangladeshi policymakers have a lot at stake in enacting data policies.

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.

Do our policymakers even understand how data works?

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.