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

By replicating existing frameworks, the draft Personal Data Protection Act misses out on critical local nuances.

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.

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

As it stands now, any person whom law enforcement authorities deem to have breached the DSA will be arrested without a warrant.

In Bangladesh, the quality of the available data does not always meet expectations, and data is not always made readily available to researchers.