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Jamaicans are being urged to get acquainted with the eight data-protection standards outlined in the Data Protection Act, 2020.

While the Act will take full effect in 2023, the Information Commissioner in the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC), Celia Barclay, told JIS News that citizens must get a full understanding of what is required of them.

Ms. Barclay is also making a special appeal to data controllers, who handle and determine how individuals’ personal information is used.

A data controller can be a business owner or a teller who has access to customers’ banking details or a small community “pardna” banker.

“Although data protection is fairly new, everyone needs to ascertain how the different provisions of the Data Protection Act, particularly the data protection standards, apply to their specific data processing activities. And [they must] implement the most appropriate measures to ensure compliance,” she said.

Processing means any possible use of information that can identify a living person or someone who has been dead for up to 30 years.

The Information Commissioner advises data controllers to seek professional advice and technical assistance from a data privacy practitioner.

“There are several [data privacy practitioners] who are already operating in the market offering a range of services, legal and technical, to data controllers,” Ms. Barclay said.

Individuals are also being encouraged to learn and assert their rights as data subjects. This includes a right to knowing what personal data is being processed by a controller, the purpose for which it is being processed, how exactly it is being processed and to whom the data is disclosed during processing.

“Also, data subjects who have reason to believe their personal data is being misused can make a complaint to the controller and require that same be discontinued or remedied,” she said.

The passage of the Data Protection Act, 2020 made provision for the establishment of the OIC, which is currently being operationalised.

The OIC is responsible for monitoring compliance with the Act and attendant regulations as well as advising the Government on matters relating to data protection and access to information, among other things.

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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, just back from the Agri-Investment Forum and Expo II in Trinidad and Tobago, has told reporters that Saint Lucia agriculture is doing well.

“Saint Lucia is doing very well as far as our agriculture is concerned,” Pierre disclosed when a reference was made to the Trinidad and Tobago event.

In this regard, the Castries East MP noted that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) figures indicate that Saint Lucia had surpassed its fruit and vegetable quota.

“It wasn’t our figures,” Pierre asserted, adding that the disclosure represented good news.

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“What was revealing is the value-added products on the raw agriculture products. There were soaps, there were creams – a number of products can be manufactured,” he told reporters.

“There is cassava. There’s a big market for cassava,” Pierre observed.

And he declared that there’s great potential for agriculture.

Nevertheless, Pierre explained that to make agriculture attractive there must be a market and finance.

“And to get into the market we have to convert the raw products into value-added goods,” he said.

“We have been primary producers,” Pierre noted.

On the question of youth involvement in the sector, Pierre said a large component of young people involved in value-added agriculture was notable.

“The use of computers – the use of technology,” he stated.

“In Saint Lucia, our youth economy merges very well with that so we are looking forward to our young people getting involved as far as agriculture is concerned,” Pierre, also responsible for Finance, told reporters.

He spoke on Monday on the sidelines of a meeting of the Cabinet as CARICOM intensifies efforts to reduce the region’s US$5 billion food import bill by 25 percent come 2025.

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Un jurado ha concedido a la viuda de la superestrella de la NBA Kobe Bryant 16 millones de dólares por daños y perjuicios debido a la filtración de fotografías del lugar del accidente de helicóptero de enero de 2020, tomadas por los primeros intervinientes y compartidas con el público.

Los nueve miembros del jurado que emitieron el veredicto unánime estuvieron de acuerdo con Vanessa Bryant y sus abogados en que los ayudantes del sheriff y los bomberos que tomaron y compartieron fotos de los restos de Kobe Bryant y de su hija de 13 años, Gianna, invadieron su privacidad y le causaron angustia emocional.

Vanessa Bryant y el codemandante Chris Chester demandaron al condado de Los Ángeles por millones de dólares no especificados por las fotografías, que incluían imágenes gráficas de restos humanos.

La esposa de Chester, Sarah, y su hija, Payton, de 13 años, estaban entre las nueve personas que murieron cuando su helicóptero se estrelló al norte de Los Ángeles.

El jurado concedió a Chester 15 millones de dólares por daños y perjuicios.

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La joven de 17 años, Patricia Arroyo, quiere cumplir su sueño de participar en el Mundial Juvenil de Aguas Abiertas que se disputará en Beau Vallon, Seychelles entre el 1 y el 4 de septiembre de 2022.

Arroyo, que practica la natación desde los nueve años ha competido en varios encuentros, el último en Ecuador.

El evento se trata de la principal competencia a nivel mundial para menores entre 14 y 19 años, y se realizará en en el lugar que ya fue sede de la Serie Mundial de Natación de Maratón FINA 2018 y 2019.

La competencia contempla pruebas individuales por edad de 5 km (14-15 años), 7,5 km (16-17 años) y 10 km (18-19 años) para hombres y mujeres. Además, se realizará un evento de equipos mixtos formado por dos hombres y dos mujeres que deben completar un recorrido de 5 km (4×1,25 km).

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