Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020
What is Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020?
Jamaica's Data Protection Act 2020 (effective December 1, 2023) establishes a comprehensive data protection framework. The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) serves as the supervisory authority. It comprises 17 controls organised across 17 domains, and applies in Jamaica.
How Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 maps to other frameworks
All 17 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 17 domains Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020. The number is how many Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
FTC GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314)
8 shared controlsPrivacy Act 1988 (Australia)
8 shared controlsLaw No. 172-13 on the Protection of Personal Data
8 shared controlsBahrain PDPL
8 shared controlsSouth Korea ISMS-P
8 shared controlsAPPI
7 shared controlsISO 27018
6 shared controlsISO 27017
6 shared controlsWhere Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020
One course in the catalogue covers Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
Training more than one person? Ten seats of any course is $1,490 on a single licence, against $199 a seat bought one at a time.
What an auditor will ask you for
All 17 Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
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Questions people ask about Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020
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Query Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 programmatically
Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020, its 17 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 API reference and MCP config →What Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- JM-DPA2020-BREACH-NOTIFICATION-SEC28-30-DUTY-NOTIFY-COMMISSIONER-AFFECTED-SUBJECTS-72-HOURS-SEVERE Jamaica DPA 2020 Personal Data Breach Notification + Sections 28-30 + Duty to Notify Commissioner + Affected Subjects + 72-Hour Reporting + High Risk + Severe + Mitigation + Documentation
- JM-DPA2020-CHILDRENS-DATA-SPECIAL-CATEGORIES-SENSITIVE-SEC5-GENETIC-BIOMETRIC-HEALTH-RACE-POLITICAL-RELIGIOUS Jamaica DPA 2020 Section 5 Sensitive Personal Data + Special Categories + Genetic + Biometric + Health + Race + Ethnicity + Political + Religious + Philosophical + Trade Union + Sex Life + Sexual Orientation + Section 7 Children's Data + Enhanced Protections
- JM-DPA2020-COMPLAINTS-ENFORCEMENT-SEC45-50-INVESTIGATION-HEARING-DETERMINATION-APPEAL-TRIBUNAL Jamaica DPA 2020 Complaints + Enforcement + Sections 45-50 + Complaint Procedure + Investigation + Hearing + Determination + Compliance Orders + Administrative Penalties + Data Protection Tribunal + High Court Appeals
- JM-DPA2020-JOINT-CONTROLLER-PROCESSOR-SEC24-25-26-ARRANGEMENTS-ALLOCATION-RESPONSIBILITIES-CONTRACTS Jamaica DPA 2020 Joint Controllers + Processors + Sections 24-26 + Arrangements + Allocation of Responsibilities + Contracts + Records of Processing Activities (ROPA) + Sub-Processors + Vendor Management
- JM-DPA2020-PRIVACY-BY-DESIGN-DEFAULT-SEC34-ENGINEERING-DATA-PROTECTION-IMPACT-ASSESSMENT-DPIA-RISK-BASED Jamaica DPA 2020 Privacy by Design + Privacy by Default + Section 34 + Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) + Risk-Based + High-Risk Processing + Prior Consultation + Privacy Engineering
- JM-DPA2020-STANDARD6-SUBJECT-RIGHTS-SEC37-43-ACCESS-CORRECTION-ERASURE-PORTABILITY-OBJECTION-PROFILING-RESTRICTION Jamaica DPA 2020 Standard 6 - Data Subject Rights Enablement + Section 37-43 + Access Right + Correction Right + Erasure Right + Portability Right + Objection Right + Automated Decision-Making Restrictions + Profiling + Restriction Right
- JM-DPA2020-STANDARD7-SECURITY-SEC35-APPROPRIATE-TECHNICAL-ORGANISATIONAL-CONFIDENTIALITY-INTEGRITY-AVAILABILITY-RESILIENCE Jamaica DPA 2020 Standard 7 - Security + Section 35 + Appropriate Technical and Organisational Measures + Confidentiality + Integrity + Availability + Resilience + Encryption + Pseudonymisation + Risk-Based Security
- JM-DPA2020-STANDARD8-TRANSFERS-OUTSIDE-JAMAICA-SEC27-ADEQUACY-DECISIONS-STANDARD-CONTRACTUAL-CLAUSES-BCR-DEROGATIONS Jamaica DPA 2020 Standard 8 - Transfers Outside Jamaica + Section 27 + Adequacy Decisions + Standard Contractual Clauses + Binding Corporate Rules + Derogations + Cross-Border Data Flows + Caribbean Community + International Data Privacy
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