SL postpones PDPA by 6 months
Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) enforcement is proceeding but its slow progress is due to certain measures which need to be taken, particularly in the public sector, concerning the infrastructure to meet enforcement requirements.
The enforcement of the full Act, as previously noted, will not be on March 25, but will be pushed by another six months at least, Waruna Sri Dhanapala, Acting Secretary, Ministry of Digital Economy and Chairman of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRC) told The Sunday Times Business.
The government acknowledges the need for a future-ready enforcement regime and supports the establishment of a fully-fledged regulator to address data subjects’ rights, Sanjaya Karunasena, Director of the Information Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) told The Sunday Times Business recently.
The PDPA is South Asia’s first comprehensive data protection legislation designed to safeguard citizens’ data rights and foster digital economy growth. Amendments to the Act have been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the revised legislation is being submitted to Parliament for approval.
“The government must ensure data security by rigorously testing and securing citizen data, as well as providing service warranties, to protect personal information, Mr. Karunasena explained further.
He said biometric-backed digital identity would provide a highly reliable, robust identity system in cyberspace for the Sri Lankan people. He mentioned the need for numerous gates and security testing of the system before it can be made available for public use. The plan for a national data exchange, which would work with Sri Lanka’s cloud, was detailed earlier in February.
Mr. Dhanapala explained that for government sector personal data management, cross-border data flows will have some sort of freedom. “With this Act, there will be more choices for public sector personal data controllers to procure cost-effective technological solutions.”
He also explained that the Act has allocated budgets now and the state sector can invest in personal data protection and cybersecurity measures as opposed to earlier when the budgets were on vote-on accounts.
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