Information Commissioner
What is Information Commissioner?
The head of a data protection authority responsible for enforcing data protection laws within a jurisdiction. In the UK, the Information Commissioner leads the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
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Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as information commissioner. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 8 shared controls
- compliance 3 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- data breach 2 shared controls
- sensitive personal data 2 shared controls
- gdpr 2 shared controls
- confidentiality 2 shared controls
- accountability 2 shared controls
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Requirements naming information commissioner across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) established by the Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 Sections 6-15 + Schedule serves as Jamaica's independent supervisory authority for data protection.
JM-DPA2020-Information-Commissioner-Sec6-15-OIC-Office-Information-Commissioner-Establishment-Independence-Functions · Jamaica DPA 2020 Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) + Sections 6-15 + Establishment + Independence + Functions + Powers + Registration Requirements + Investigation + Enforcement + Data Protection Council →Independence, functions, and powers of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
FADP-16 · FDPIC Independence and Functions →Annual reporting obligations of the Information Commissioner, the System Operator and the Data Governance Board.
MYHR-GOV-3 · Annual reporting on the My Health Record system →Abolishes the office of the Information Commissioner and establishes the Information Commission as a body corporate, transferring functions and setting its governance, duties and powers.
DUAA-P6-INFOCOMM · The Information Commission →Global CBPR Forum coordination with adjacent privacy regimes. EU GDPR + GDPR ADEQUACY: no formal EU adequacy decision recognizing CBPR + ongoing European Commission dialogue; some EU companies use CBPR as supplementary measure + accountability evidence;
CBPR-Coord-GDPR-UK-Japan-Korea-Singapore-Philippines-StateLaws · Global CBPR Forum: Coordination with GDPR + UK GDPR + Japan APPI + Korea PIPA + Singapore PDPA + Philippines DPA + US State Laws →Determine applicability and maintain a documented data breach response plan per the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme established by the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 + Part IIIC of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) administered by the Office of...
AUNDB-A1 · Applicability, Scope, and Data Breach Response Plan →Questions people ask about information commissioner
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