Six jurisdictions are without any substantive laws to govern the protection of personal data. 10 jurisdictions have passed data privacy laws in the Commonwealth Caribbean* generally. Recent developments in Barbados and Jamaica have led to data privacy-related developments in the relevant jurisdictions. As used here, Commonwealth Caribbean refers to all countries in the Caribbean that…

Caribbean data protection and privacy experts hosted a panel at last week’s Data Protection World Forum. Caribbean nations are at various stages of implementation of legislation to implement the legal shields and compliance required for parity with global data processing regimes. The Cayman Islands passed its data protection act in 2017 and it came into…

Caribbean coun­tries have been po­si­tioned to im­prove their ca­pac­i­ty for in­for­ma­tion pri­va­cy man­age­ment through the re­cent des­ig­na­tion of the re­gion as hav­ing ‘Emerg­ing Mar­ket’ sta­tus grant­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Pri­va­cy Pro­fes­sion­als (IAPP). “The IAPP rec­og­nizes that Caribbean coun­tries are re­spond­ing to glob­al trends in da­ta pri­va­cy and are po­si­tion­ing their mar­kets ac­cord­ing­ly,” said…