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NIST Privacy Framework, Govern-PGV.PO-P1

Organizational privacy values and policies (e.g., conditions on data processing such as data uses or retention periods, individuals’ prerogatives with respect to data processing) are established and communicated.NIST Privacy Framework, version 1.0, January 2020, GV.PO-P1

We read each law below as bearing on this control. That does not mean the control, done well, meets the law: what each law asks is on its own page. Corpus as of .

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with court rulings behind them
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not yet in force
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proposed, not law

The same ground elsewhere linked through the kinds of duty both controls are mapped from

A law in force is unmarked; the rest wear their state: not yet in force proposed

  • Algeria
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Bahamas
  • Benin
  • Bermuda
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cabo Verde
  • California
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eswatini
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Grenada
  • Idaho
  • Indiana
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Kentucky
  • Kenya
  • Kosovo
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mexico
  • Minnesota
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Panama
  • Peru
  • Saint Lucia
  • Samoa
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Suriname
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Comprehensive regime

76 laws, 75 places
PlaceLawWhat it asks, as read here
Algeria Loi n° 18-07 relative à la protection des personnes physiques dans le traitement des données à caractère personnel, modifiée et complétée par la loi n° 25-11

Process personal data lawfully and fairly, for determined and legitimate purposes, keeping it adequate, accurate and no longer than those purposes require.

Antigua and Barbuda Data Protection Act, 2013

Process personal data only for a lawful purpose directly related to your activity, keep the processing necessary for that purpose, and keep the data adequate but not excessive for it.

Argentina Ley 25.326, Ley de Protección de los Datos Personales

Collect only personal data that is true, adequate, relevant, and not excessive for the purpose you obtained it, use it only for that purpose, keep it accurate and updated, correct or delete it once you learn it is inaccurate or incomplete, store it so the data subject's access right can be exercised, and destroy it once it is no longer necessary.

Bahamas Data Protection Act 2003, application and processing principles

Collect personal data only by means that are lawful and fair, keep it accurate and up to date, and hold it only for the specified purposes it was collected for.

Benin Loi n°2017-20 portant Code du Numérique en République du Bénin, Livre V (protection des données à caractère personnel)

Collect personal data only for determined, explicit, and legitimate purposes, and do not process it further in a way incompatible with those purposes.

Bermuda Personal Information Protection Act 2016, application and general principles

Use personal information only for the specific purposes it was collected for, in a fair and lawful manner, and adopt measures and policies giving effect to these obligations.

Bolivia Anteproyecto de Ley de Protección de Datos Personales (AGETIC) proposed

Process a natural person's personal data lawfully, for a stated purpose, and with the security, transparency, and accountability the draft's principles describe.

Bolivia Reglamento para el Desarrollo de TIC, Tratamiento de los Datos Personales

Do not use personal data for a purpose other than the one stated when it was collected.

Botswana Data Protection Act, 2024 (Act No. 18 of 2024)

Process personal data lawfully, fairly and transparently, only for a specified and legitimate purpose, and collect no more than is adequate and relevant to that purpose.

Burkina Faso Loi n°001-2021/AN du 30 mars 2021 portant protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement des données à caractère personnel

Collect personal data only for determined, explicit and legitimate purposes, keep it accurate and updated, and do not retain it beyond the period the purpose requires.

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Cabo Verde Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data

Process personal data lawfully and in good faith, collect it only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, keep it accurate and proportionate to those purposes, and do not keep it identifiable for longer than the purposes require.

California California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (Proposition 24)

Limit your collection, use, retention, and sharing of a California consumer's personal information to what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to the purpose you disclosed.

Canada Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Comply with the ten Schedule 1 fair information principles, including limiting use and disclosure to the purposes for which information was collected and keeping it only as long as necessary.

Cayman Islands Data Protection Act 2021 Revision, application, principles and data subject rights

Have a lawful basis for collecting and processing personal data, and hold it only for specified purposes.

Central African Republic Loi n° 24.001 portant protection des données à caractère personnel

Apply the Act's core principles to every processing activity: lawfulness, fairness, transparency, security, purpose limitation, accuracy, proportionality, and a retention period no longer than the purpose requires.

If you provide electronic signature certification services, collect the personal data needed for issuing and keeping the certificates directly from the person concerned, and use it only for that purpose absent the person's express consent otherwise.

Chad Loi n°007/PR/2015, principes directeurs du traitement des données (consentement, licéité, finalité, conservation)

Collect and process personal data only for determined, explicit, and legitimate purposes, and do not process it later in a way incompatible with those purposes.

China Personal Information Protection Law of the PRC, General Processing Rules and Lawful Bases

Limit personal information processing to the minimum scope and duration necessary for a stated, specific purpose.

Colombia Ley 1581 de 2012, General Personal Data Protection

Apply the legality, purpose limitation, freedom, accuracy, transparency, restricted access and confidentiality principles to every processing operation, and do not process partial, incomplete, fragmented or misleading personal data.

Comoros Law on the Protection of Personal Data

Collect and process personal data lawfully and fairly, only for determined and legitimate purposes, keep it accurate and up to date, and do not retain it beyond the period necessary for those purposes.

Collect personal data for an electronic certification service directly from the data subject, and use it only for the purpose it was collected for, unless the data subject expressly consents otherwise.

Costa Rica Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de sus Datos Personales

Do not use collected data for a purpose incompatible with the one disclosed at collection.

Côte d'Ivoire Law No. 2013-450 on the Protection of Personal Data

Collect and process personal data lawfully and fairly, for specified and legitimate purposes, keeping it no longer than those purposes require, accurate, and transparent to the person concerned.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Digital Code, Title III: Personal Data Protection

Do not process personal data for historical, statistical or scientific purposes beyond its original collection unless one of the statutory safeguards applies, or process only anonymous data for that further purpose.

Egypt Law No. 151 of 2020 Promulgating the Personal Data Protection Law

Collect Personal Data only for legitimate, specific purposes that are transparent to the Data Subject, keep it correct, valid and secured, and do not retain it longer than that purpose needs.

El Salvador Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales

Collect only personal data that is sufficient, relevant and not excessive for your specific, legitimate purpose, and keep it accurate, complete and up to date.

If you are a private entity, process a data subject's data only for the services you actually provide them, and do not transfer or use a third party's data for a different purpose without that party's authorization.

Equatorial Guinea Ley de Protección de Datos Personales

Keep personal data secure, confidential, and limited to what is adequate and not excessive for the stated purpose.

Eswatini Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022)

Collect personal information only for a specified, explicit and legitimate purpose, and do not further process it in a way incompatible with that purpose.

Gabon Loi n°001/2011 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel, modifiée par la loi n°025/2023

Collect and process personal data fairly and lawfully, only for determined, explicit and legitimate purposes, and keep it accurate, adequate and no longer than those purposes need.

Gambia Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2025 from a date not yet set

Collect personal data only for explicit and legitimate purposes, keep it adequate and relevant to those purposes, keep it accurate and up to date, and process it securely.

Carry out a compatibility assessment before putting personal data to a new purpose, weighing the relationship between the purposes, the context of collection, the nature of the data, the consequences for the data subject and the safeguards in place.

Grenada Data Protection Act, No. 1 of 2023 from a date not yet set

Process personal data only for a lawful purpose directly related to your activity, and hold no more than is adequate and not excessive for that purpose.

Indiana Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (INCDPA), general applicability and controller duties

Limit the collection of personal data from an Indiana consumer to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for the purposes disclosed to that consumer, and do not process it for an incompatible purpose without consent.

Jamaica Data Protection Act, 2020, registration, lawful basis and standards for processing

Obtain personal data only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and do not further process it in a manner incompatible with those purposes.

Hold no more personal data than is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purpose, keep it accurate and up to date, and do not keep it for longer than that purpose requires.

Japan Act on the Protection of Personal Information, comprehensive regime and lawful basis

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Japan must give notice of, or publicly disclose, its purpose of use before or promptly after collection, must not acquire the data by wrongful or deceptive means, and must confine use to the stated purpose unless a statutory exception or the data subject's consent applies.

Kentucky Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA), general applicability and controller and processor duties

Limit collection to the purposes disclosed to the consumer, and use a written contract to bind any processor to your instructions.

Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019

Process personal data lawfully, fairly and transparently, only for an explicit and legitimate purpose, and collect no more than is necessary for that purpose.

Kosovo Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data

Establish a lawful basis under Article 5 before processing personal data of a person in Kosovo, and apply the Article 4 principles of lawfulness, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, security and accountability throughout.

Kyrgyzstan Digital Code, comprehensive personal data regime

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of individuals in Kyrgyzstan must process it lawfully, fairly, and transparently, limit use to the stated purpose, minimize what is collected, keep it accurate, and limit retention to the processing purpose. An organization with more than ten employees must designate a personal-data-responsible person and provide staff training.

Lebanon Law No. 81/2018 on Electronic Transactions and Personal Data, Part V (Personal Data Protection)

Collect personal data faithfully and for legitimate, specific and explicit purposes, keep it appropriate to and within those purposes, correct, complete and as relevant as possible, and do not later process it for purposes out of line with the objectives you stated, except for statistical, historical or scientific research.

Lesotho Data Protection Act, 2011 (Act No. 5 of 2012)

Collect personal information only for a specified, explicit and legitimate purpose, and do not further process it in a way incompatible with that purpose.

Liberia Telecommunications Act of 2007, Protection of Personal Information (§§ 51-52)

Identify the purposes for which customer information is collected, at or before collection, and do not use it for an undisclosed purpose.

Madagascar Law No. 2014-038, protection of personal data

Collect and process personal data fairly, lawfully, and only for determined, explicit, and legitimate purposes, and do not use it later for another purpose without the data subject's consent or a purpose the law itself provides.

Keep personal data adequate, relevant, accurate, and no longer than those purposes require, unless it is kept for archival, historical, statistical, or scientific purposes under the safeguards the law or the CMIL sets.

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Malawi Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act, 2016, personal data processing and security duties (Part VII)

Process personal data fairly and lawfully, collect it only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, and do not process it further in a way incompatible with those purposes.

Keep personal data adequate, relevant and not excessive for its purpose, accurate and up to date, and take every reasonable step to erase or rectify data that is inaccurate or incomplete; do not keep it in identifiable form for longer than the purpose requires.

Maldives Personal Data Protection Bill, pending before the People's Majlis proposed

If enacted as drafted, a Controller or Processor would need a lawful basis before processing personal data, would have to collect it only for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes declared before collection, and would not be able to process it further in a way incompatible with those purposes.

If enacted as drafted, personal data would have to be adequate, relevant and necessary to the declared purposes, accurate and kept up to date, and retained in identifiable form no longer than those purposes need.

Mali Loi n° 2013-015, protection des données à caractère personnel

Collect and process personal data fairly, lawfully, and without fraud, only for determined, explicit, and legitimate purposes, never using it for another purpose, and keep it adequate, proportionate, and relevant to those purposes, accurate and updated where necessary, and identifiable for no longer than those purposes require.

Marshall Islands Personal Data Protection Act 2025, government personal-data protection principles

Process personal data lawfully, fairly, and transparently, for a specified and legitimate purpose, and do not further process it in a way incompatible with that purpose.

Collect personal data only by lawful and fair means, and limit it to what is relevant and necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it is processed.

Mexico Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (LFPDPPP)

Limit processing of personal data to the purposes stated in the privacy notice, and obtain the data subject's consent again before processing it for a different purpose.

Minnesota Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA), general applicability

Limit your collection of a Minnesota resident's personal data to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for the purpose you disclosed to them, and obtain consent before processing it for an undisclosed, incompatible secondary purpose.

Morocco Law No. 09-08 on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data

Process personal data only where it is collected fairly and lawfully for determined, explicit and legitimate purposes, and do not process it later in a way incompatible with those purposes.

Keep personal data adequate, relevant, accurate, and not excessive for those purposes, and do not retain it in identifiable form longer than the purposes require.

Mozambique Electronic Transactions Law, Protection of Personal Electronic Data

Specify the purpose for collecting personal data and your identity as the processor before collecting it, and limit any later use to that stated purpose.

New Hampshire New Hampshire Data Privacy Act (NHDPA), general applicability and controller and processor duties

Limit personal data collection to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary, and describe your purposes in a privacy notice.

New Jersey New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA), general applicability and scope

Limit your collection of a New Jersey resident's personal data to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for the purpose disclosed to the consumer.

New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, Information Privacy Principles and Extraterritorial Reach

Collect personal information directly from the individual concerned unless an exception applies, such as the individual's authorisation, the source being a publicly available publication, or non-compliance not prejudicing the individual's interests.

Nicaragua Ley No. 787, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales

Process personal data only to the extent adequate, proportional, and necessary for the stated purpose, and adopt technical and organizational security measures against unauthorized access, use, alteration, loss, disclosure, transfer, or dissemination.

Niger Loi n° 2022-59, protection des données à caractère personnel

Collect personal data only for determined, explicit and legitimate purposes, and do not process it later in a way incompatible with those purposes or keep it longer than the purposes require.

Nigeria Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDPA), general data protection duties

Process personal data on one of the lawful bases section 25 recognises, and hold to the section 24 principles of fairness, lawfulness and transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, confidentiality, integrity and availability.

North Macedonia Law on Personal Data Protection (LPDP), video surveillance

Limit video surveillance to the area sufficient for the goal it was installed for, and never install it in changing rooms, dressing rooms, toilets or similar rooms.

Panama Ley 81 de 2019, Sobre Protección de Datos Personales

Have a lawful basis, such as consent, contractual necessity or a legal obligation, before processing a person's personal data, and use it only for the purpose for which it was collected.

Peru Ley 29733, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales

Do not collect personal data by fraudulent, unfair, or unlawful means, and collect only data that is updated, necessary, relevant, and adequate to a determined, explicit, and lawful purpose stated at the time of collection.

Do not use personal data for a purpose other than the one that justified its collection, unless you first apply an anonymization or dissociation procedure.

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Québec Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, comprehensive regime

Establish and implement governance policies and practices for personal information, including a framework for retention and destruction, and conduct a privacy impact assessment before acquiring, developing or overhauling a system or service that collects, uses, communicates, keeps or destroys personal information.

Saint Lucia Data Protection Act

Collect personal data only for a lawful purpose connected with your function or activity, and only where the collection is necessary for that purpose.

Keep personal data only for the specified purpose it was collected for, do not use or disclose it in a way incompatible with that purpose, keep it adequate and relevant and not excessive, and keep it accurate and up to date.

Samoa Telecommunications Act 2005, confidentiality and protection of customer personal information

Identify the purposes for which customer information is collected at or before collection, and do not collect, use, maintain, or disclose customer information for an undisclosed purpose without the customer's consent or legal authority.

Sao Tome and Principe Lei n.º 03/2016, Protecção de Dados Pessoais

Process personal data lawfully and in good faith, collect it only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes tied to your activity, keep it adequate, relevant and not excessive, accurate and updated, and retain it in identifiable form no longer than the collection purpose requires.

Do not process personal data you access as a subcontractor, or on the controller's authority, beyond the controller's instructions except under a legal obligation, and keep confidential any personal data you learn of in the course of your duties, including after those duties end.

Solomon Islands Telecommunications Act 2009, Confidentiality and Consent Duties

Disclose to a consumer the purpose of collecting information about them, and do not use or maintain that information for an undisclosed purpose.

Somalia Data Protection Act No. 005 of 2023

Collect personal data for a specified, explicit and legitimate purpose, keep it to the minimum necessary for that purpose, keep it accurate, and retain it no longer than the purpose requires.

South Africa Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA)

Obtain a lawful basis, such as the data subject's consent, before processing personal information, and limit processing to the purpose for which it was collected.

Suriname Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data (Ontwerpwet Bescherming Privacy en Persoonsgegevens) proposed

Process personal data lawfully and fairly, only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes, and keep it adequate, relevant, accurate, and limited to what those purposes need.

Syria Law No. 12 of 2024 on Protection of Electronic Personal Data

Collect personal data only for legitimate and specific purposes, process it in a manner appropriate to those purposes, and do not retain it longer than the purpose requires unless the retention is for archiving in the public interest or for scientific, historical or statistical purposes.

Taiwan Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法)

Collect, process, or use the personal data of an individual in Taiwan only for a specific purpose and on one of the Act's stated lawful bases, and confine use to the purpose stated at collection unless a further basis under Article 16 or 20 applies.

Tanzania Personal Data Protection Act, 2022

Process personal data lawfully, fairly and transparently, and only for an explicit and legitimate purpose.

Togo Loi n° 2019-014, protection des données à caractère personnel

Collect and process personal data lawfully and fairly, only for determined and legitimate purposes, keep it accurate and up to date, and do not retain it beyond the period necessary for those purposes.

Tonga Privacy Act 2025, comprehensive personal information protection regime from a date not yet set

Process personal information only for a lawful purpose related to your function or activity, take all reasonable steps to keep it accurate, complete, not misleading and up to date for that purpose, and hold no more than is adequate, relevant and limited to it.

Trinidad and Tobago Data Protection Act, 2011

Limit collection of personal information to what is legally undertaken and necessary for the identified purpose, retain it only as long as necessary for that purpose, and do not disclose it for another purpose without the individual's prior consent.

Tunisia Organic Act on the Protection of Personal Data

Collect and process personal data only for a lawful, determined and explicit purpose, and keep it accurate, precise and up to date.

Uganda Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, comprehensive personal-data regime

Collect personal data directly from the data subject, unless a listed exception applies, such as the data being in a public record, already made public by the data subject, or collected with their consent.

Collect personal data only for a lawful purpose that is specific, explicitly defined, and related to your functions or activities.

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Ukraine Draft Law No. 8153 on Personal Data Protection (GDPR-Aligned Reform) proposed

Once enacted, process personal data of a person in Ukraine only under a lawful basis, applying the principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.

Zambia Data Protection Act, 2021, personal data processing framework

Before processing personal data, establish a lawful basis such as consent, a contract, a legal obligation, or a legitimate interest, and process it fairly, transparently, and only for the purpose collected.

Collect personal data directly from the data subject unless one of the exceptions in section 16(2) applies.

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Zimbabwe Cyber and Data Protection Act [Chapter 12:07]

Process personal data necessarily, fairly, lawfully and for specified, legitimate purposes before a crawler or AI training pipeline collects or uses personal data of a person in Zimbabwe.

Biometric privacy

2 laws, 2 places
PlaceLawWhat it asks, as read here
Georgia Law on Personal Data Protection, biometric data article

An app that captures or stores a facial image, voiceprint, or other biometric identifier from a person in Georgia must have a necessity-based purpose recognized by Art. 9 or the data subject's consent, and must determine in writing, before processing begins, the purpose, volume, storage period, and destruction procedure for that biometric data.

Turkmenistan Law on Information About Private Life, biometric information

An app that processes a faceprint, voiceprint, or other biometric identifier of a Turkmen data subject must treat it as automatically confidential and limited to the purpose for which it was collected. The Act's own consent, retention, and destruction rules for biometric data specifically are deferred to other Turkmen legislation, which the Act does not name and which is not identified here.

Enforcement supervision

2 laws, 2 places
PlaceLawWhat it asks, as read here
Bhutan Cybersecurity Code of Practice for ICT/Telecommunications Service Providers, privacy and PII duty

A Telecom Service Provider or other ICT service provider with critical information infrastructure in Bhutan must establish and communicate a privacy and PII-protection policy, implement procedures to preserve that privacy, including for a biometric identifier such as a voiceprint or faceprint handled as PII, and put in place appropriate technical and organizational measures, consistent with its reporting obligations under the Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018.

Idaho Student Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act (SDATAA) from a date not yet set

If you are a school district or public charter school, adopt, implement, and post your student-data policy; failing to do so carries its own separate civil penalty.

Sensitive categories

1 law, 1 place
PlaceLawWhat it asks, as read here
Suriname Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data, special categories, children and criminal data proposed

If you are not an official authority and you process criminal conviction data for an employment law purpose, keep an internal policy document explaining your procedures for complying with the article 5 principles and your retention and erasure policy for that data, and make it available to the Commissioner on request.

Full text of the NIST Privacy Framework, public domain (a US government work). Every control of the framework.