Purpose of Data Privacy Act

The object of this Act is to increase data protection in order to build confidence and trust in the secure use of information and communication technologies by data controllers, their representatives and data subjects.

According to the Data Privacy Act, the pupose of the Act includes the following

• An Act to provide for data protection with due regard to the Declaration of Rights under the Constitution and the public and national interest;
• To establish a Data Protection Authority and to provide for their functions;
• To create a technology driven business environment and encourage technological development and the lawful use of technology;
• To amend sections 162 to 166 of the Criminal Code (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] to provide for investigation and collection of evidence of cyber crime and unauthorised data collection and breaches, and to provide for admissibility of electronic evidence for such offences;
• To amend the Interception of Communications Act [Chapter 11:20] to establish a Cyber Security Centre and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

Data in the Data Privacy Act “means any representation of facts, concepts, information, whether in text, audio, video, images, machine-readable code or instructions, in a form suitable for communications, interpretation or processing in a computer device, computer system, database, electronic communications network or related devices and includes a computer programme and traffic data;”

• Privacy is a function of what and where?
• Afterwards we can ask who, when and how.