Legal Privilege
What is Legal Privilege?
The protection of communications between an attorney and client from disclosure, relevant to incident investigations and compliance matters.
Terms that appear alongside legal privilege
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as legal privilege. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 2 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
- data subject 2 shared controls
- gdpr 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern legal privilege
What the standards actually require on legal privilege
Requirements naming legal privilege across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 (Act No. 7 of 2020) is Jamaica's first comprehensive data protection legislation passed by the Jamaican Parliament 16 June 2020 + assented to by the Governor-General 30 June 2020 + published in the Gazette 1 July 2020.
JM-DPA2020-Scope-Application-Sec1-3-31Dec2021-PartialEffective-1Dec2023-MandatoryCompliance-Territorial-Extraterritorial · Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 - Scope + Application + Sections 1-3 + Commencement 1 December 2021 Partial + 1 December 2023 Mandatory Compliance + Territorial + Extraterritorial Application + Definitions →Effective management of legal risk rests on the ISO 31000 principles read for legal risk, with a ninth, equity, added. Integrated: legal risk management is integral to governance and management and embedded in strategic planning, decision-making and management...
iso-31022-2020::4 · Principles: the eight ISO 31000 principles applied to legal risk, plus equity →Every person may review the personal information about them held in a database, personally, through a written-authorised representative or a guardian;
israel-protection-of-privacy-law-5741-1981::13 · Section 13: right of access to personal information →On request an organisation must, as soon as reasonably possible (the regulations and guidelines set 30 days, with notice of any longer time), provide the individual with their personal data in its possession or control and information about the ways the data h...
pdpa-singapore::21 · Access to personal data →A person who appears to exercise control over a computer or computer system that the Commissioner believes may meet the CII criteria must, within the period in the notice, provide the information required (the system's function, who and what it serves, its des...
singapore-cybersecurity-act-2018::S8 · Provide information to help the Commissioner decide whether a system is CII →A licensee, and anyone acting for it, must provide within the specified period any information MAS requires about its payment services business, including its operations and pricing;
singapore-payment-services-act-2019::S16 · Provide information MAS requires by notice →Questions people ask about legal privilege
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