Duty LXD-7343
Provides telecom services, in the Solomon Islands
Telecommunications Act 2009, Confidentiality and Consent Dutiessince 5 lines
Telecommunications Act 2009 (Solomon Islands), Part 11 (Relations with Consumers), ss. 72-74 · Read the law's page
- If operating as a licensed telecommunications service provider in Solomon Islands, do not collect, use, maintain, or disclose a consumer's information without the consumer's consent, other than publishing the consumer's name, address, and listed telephone number in a directory.
- Comply with any order or direction the Telecommunications Commission issues under section 72(3) requiring you to retain, or prohibiting you from retaining beyond a specified period, information relating to a consumer, including billing information.
- Take all reasonable steps to keep a consumer's communications confidential, and do not intercept, monitor, alter, or modify the content of a message without authorisation.
- Disclose to a consumer the purpose of collecting information about them, and do not use or maintain that information for an undisclosed purpose.
- Let a consumer inspect the records you hold about them, and correct or remove information shown to be incorrect.
Telecommunications Act 2009, Security Safeguards for Consumer Informationsince 4 lines
s. 72(1)(b), Telecommunications Act 2009 (Solomon Islands) · Read the law's page
- This reaches you where you operate as a telecommunications service provider licensed in Solomon Islands; it does not reach a business with no such licence.
- Apply appropriate security safeguards to prevent the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of a consumer's information.
- Expect a contravention of this duty to be prosecutable as a criminal offence under s. 120(1)(j), or instead pursued as a civil violation under Part 18, but not both for the same conduct.
- Expect a consumer who sustains loss or damage from your failure to safeguard their information to be able to sue you in court under s. 117 to recover that loss, where the matter is proceeded as a violation rather than an offence.