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Can you summarize Draft Data Privacy Bill 2020 - CHECK FOR UPDATES, BILL MAY HAVE DIED BY NOW?
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Short Summary
The Data Protection Act 2023 of Guyana regulates the collection, keeping, processing, use, and dissemination of personal data. It aims to protect the privacy of individuals in relation to their personal data. The Act applies to data controllers and data processors established in Guyana, as well as those not established in Guyana but processing personal data of data subjects in Guyana. It sets out principles relating to the processing of personal data, including fairness, lawfulness, and security. The Act grants rights to data subjects, such as the right of access, rectification, erasure, and data portability. It also establishes rules for the transfer of personal data outside of Guyana and provides for exemptions in certain circumstances. Non-compliance with the Act may result in administrative penalties, fines, imprisonment, and liability for body corporate, directors, etc.
Whom does it apply to?
Data controllers and data processors established in Guyana, as well as data controllers and data processors not established in Guyana but processing personal data of data subjects in Guyana
What does it govern?
Regulate the collection, keeping, processing, use and dissemination of personal data; protect the privacy of individuals in relation to their personal data
What are exemptions?
Exemptions are provided for certain purposes such as journalism, literature, art, research, history, statistics, certain manual data held by public authorities, information available to the public by law, disclosures required by law or made in connection with legal proceedings, parliamentary privilege, legal professional privilege, domestic purposes, confidential references given by the data controller, national security and armed forces, judicial appointments and honours, appointments to public service, corporate finance, examinations, refusal to give access to personal data, and powers to make further exemptions by order.
What are the Penalties?
Administrative penalties and fines ranging from 5 million to 100 million Guyanese dollars, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 to 5 years, and liability of body corporate, directors, etc.
Jurisdiction
Guyana