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NIST Privacy Framework, Protect-PPR.DS-P5
Protections against data leaks are implemented.NIST Privacy Framework, version 1.0, January 2020, PR.DS-P5
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. Law library as of .
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- not yet in force
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- proposed, not law
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- NIST CSF 2.0PR.DS-01 The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data-at-rest are protected, 98 laws
- NIST CSF 2.0GV.SC-05 Requirements to address cybersecurity risks in supply chains are..., 14 laws
- NIST CSF 2.0GV.PO-01 Policy for managing cybersecurity risks is established based on..., 7 laws
- 4 more in the NIST CSF 2.0
- FINOS AIGFAIR-PREV-007 Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems, 121 laws
- FINOS AIGFAIR-PREV-008 Quality of Service (QoS) and DDoS Prevention for AI Systems, 120 laws
- FINOS AIGFAIR-PREV-012 Role-Based Access Control for AI Data, 120 laws
- 10 more in the FINOS AIGF
- ENISA NIS2 guidance2.1 Risk management framework, 37 laws
- ENISA NIS2 guidance3.1 Incident handling policy, 37 laws
- ENISA NIS2 guidance4.1 Business continuity and disaster recovery plan, 37 laws
- 5 more in the ENISA NIS2 guidance
A law in force is unmarked; the rest wear their state: not yet in force proposed
Comprehensive regime
75 laws, 72 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| 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 |
Implement technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, and choose a processor only for the sufficiency of its own security guarantees, governed by a written contract. |
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| LQPD, Llei 29/2021 del 28 d'octubre |
Put appropriate technical and organisational security measures in place, proportionate to the risk, before and during processing. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data |
Implement technical and organisational measures adequate to the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the data, and keep a document describing the security measures, standards and procedures applied. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2013 |
Take practical security steps against loss, misuse, unauthorised or accidental access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal data, having regard to its sensitivity, where it is stored, and the reliability of personnel with access, and secure the same guarantees from any data processor you engage. |
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| Ley 25.326, Ley de Protección de los Datos Personales |
Adopt the technical and organizational measures needed to guarantee the security and confidentiality of personal data and to detect unauthorized or accidental deviations, and do not register personal data in a file that lacks adequate technical integrity and security conditions. |
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| Law of the Republic of Belarus On Personal Data Protection |
Take legal, organizational and technical measures against unauthorized or accidental access, modification, termination, copying, dissemination, transmission or erasure of personal data, appoint a data protection officer or a dedicated unit, publish your data processing policy, and train staff who handle personal data, under Article 17. |
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| Ley General de Telecomunicaciones, Inviolabilidad y Secreto de las Comunicaciones y Protección de Datos Personales |
Protect the personal data and privacy of your users, apart from what regulation permits in directories, invoices, and similar records. |
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| Reglamento para el Desarrollo de TIC, Tratamiento de los Datos Personales |
Adopt technical and organisational measures, matched to the state of technology and the data's nature and risk, to keep personal data secure and prevent its alteration, loss, or unauthorised processing. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2024 (Act No. 18 of 2024) |
Implement appropriate technical and organisational measures, including data protection by design and by default, to secure personal data at a level appropriate to the risk and to be able to demonstrate compliance with the Act. |
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| Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD) |
Adopt technical and administrative security measures suited to protect personal data against unauthorized access and accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, communication, or improper processing, from the design of the product or service through its execution. |
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| British Columbia | Personal Information Protection Act, comprehensive regime |
Protect personal information in your custody or under your control by making reasonable security arrangements against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal or similar risks. |
| Loi n°001-2021/AN du 30 mars 2021 portant protection des personnes à l'égard du traitement des données à caractère personnel |
Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. |
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| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data |
Implement technical and organizational measures adequate to the risks and the nature of the data to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and choose a processor offering sufficient guarantees about those measures. |
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| Draft Law on Personal Data Protection, final draft proposed |
A data controller or processor must implement personal data protection by design and by default, and must secure personal data with technical and organizational measures against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, or destruction, and against the loss of any storage medium on which it is held. |
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| Loi n° 24.001 portant protection des données à caractère personnel |
Take precautions appropriate to the data's nature and the risks involved to keep personal data secure, including protection against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized access. |
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| Loi n°007/PR/2015, principes directeurs du traitement des données (consentement, licéité, finalité, conservation) |
Inform the data subject about the processing of their personal data, and process it confidentially and with security measures against unauthorized access. |
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| Ley 1581 de 2012, General Personal Data Protection |
Keep proof of the data subject's authorization, tell them at authorization the purpose of the processing, keep their personal data updated and accurate, secure it against unauthorized alteration, loss, consultation, use or access, and correct it once it is shown to be incorrect. As a data processor, keep personal data secure in the same way, update or correct it as the controller instructs within five business days, and adopt an internal manual of policies and procedures for handling consultations and claims. |
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| Superintendencia Circular on AI and Personal Data |
Adopt technological, human, administrative, physical and contractual security measures to prevent unauthorized access to, manipulation, destruction, or unauthorized use or circulation of personal data processed in an artificial intelligence system, and keep those measures auditable by the authorities. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data |
Take precautions appropriate to the nature of the data and the risks the processing presents to preserve its security, including against distortion, damage, or access by unauthorized third parties. |
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| Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de sus Datos Personales |
Adopt technical and organizational security measures to prevent the alteration, loss, or unauthorized access of personal data. |
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| Digital Code, Title III: Personal Data Protection |
Implement technical and organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or alteration, confine internal access to what each role requires, and train staff on their data protection duties. |
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| Digital Code, Book I: Personal Data Protection and CNDP |
Build data protection into the design and the default settings of your processing, restrict processing to persons acting under your authority and on your instructions, and take the measures necessary to secure personal data against loss, alteration, or unauthorized access, having regard to its nature and the risks the processing presents. |
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| Ley No. 172-13 sobre Protección Integral de los Datos Personales |
Adopt the technical, organizational, and security measures necessary to prevent the alteration, loss, or unauthorized access of personal data, and maintain adequate information policies with security and control measures for every archive, registry, or databank you keep. Keep personal data confidential under a duty of professional secrecy that continues after your relationship with the data subject or the data controller ends, unless a court relieves you of it for reasons of public security, national defense, or public health. +1 more |
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| LOPDP, comprehensive personal-data protection regime |
Secure personal data with the technical and organisational measures articles 37 to 41 require, determined from a risk, threat and vulnerability analysis, and build data protection into the design of your processing and make it the default. |
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| Law No. 151 of 2020 Promulgating the Personal Data Protection Law |
Adopt technical and regulatory procedures and the necessary standard criteria to protect Personal Data and keep it confidential, preventing any hack, damage, alteration or manipulation. |
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| Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales |
Maintain the technological, regulatory and procedural security measures the Entidad Rectora sets to keep personal data confidential, available and unaltered. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022) |
Take appropriate, reasonable technical and administrative measures to secure the integrity of personal information in your possession or under your control against loss, modification, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access, and govern any data processor who processes information on your behalf by a written contract that requires the same measures. |
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| Personal Data Protection Proclamation |
Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, including pseudonymization and encryption, the ability to restore access to personal data after a physical or technical incident, and a process for regularly testing their effectiveness. |
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| General Data Protection Regulation, Principles Relating to Processing of Personal Data and Accountability (Article 5) |
Process personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures (Article 5(1), point (f)). |
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| Loi n°001/2011 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel, modifiée par la loi n°025/2023 |
Implement technical and organizational security measures adapted to the risk, including pseudonymization and encryption, and regularly test, assess and evaluate their effectiveness. |
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| Data Protection Act |
Take appropriate, reasonable technical and organisational measures to secure personal data against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction, and unlawful access, and require a data processor acting on your behalf to maintain the same measures under a written contract. |
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| Data Protection Act, No. 1 of 2023 from a date not yet set |
Take practical steps to secure personal data against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or destruction, and obtain a data processor's own security guarantees before letting it process personal data on your behalf. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2020, registration, lawful basis and standards for processing |
Take appropriate technical and organisational measures, including pseudonymisation and encryption, against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage. |
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| Data Protection Act 2025 |
Implement appropriate technical and organisational measures against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, misuse or alteration and unauthorised disclosure or access, taking into account the amount of personal data, the likelihood of harm, the extent of processing, the retention period, and the availability and cost of measures. |
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| Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data |
Put appropriate technical and organisational security measures in place, proportionate to the risk, before and during processing. |
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| Law No. 81/2018 on Electronic Transactions and Personal Data, Part V (Personal Data Protection) |
Take all measures, in light of the nature of the data and the risks of processing it, to keep the data intact and secure and to protect it against distortion, damage and access by unauthorized persons. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011 (Act No. 5 of 2012) |
Take appropriate, reasonable technical measures to secure the integrity of personal information in your possession or under your control against loss, damage, unauthorised destruction or unlawful access, and govern any agent who processes information on your behalf by a written contract that requires the same measures. |
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| Data Protection Act of Liberia |
Implement reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical and technical measures to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, alteration and disclosure and against other unlawful processing, and ensure that third parties processing it for you apply the same measures. |
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| Telecommunications Act of 2007, Protection of Personal Information (§§ 51-52) |
Protect customer information and customer communications with security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity. |
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| Law No. 2014-038, protection of personal data |
Take security precautions appropriate to the data and the risk, to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, loss, or disclosure. |
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| Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act, 2016, personal data processing and security duties (Part VII) |
Implement technical and organizational security measures appropriate to the risk, including where you transmit personal data over a network, to protect it against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure or access. |
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| Personal Data Protection Bill, pending before the People's Majlis proposed |
A Controller or Processor must secure personal data with appropriate technical, physical or organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. |
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| Loi n° 2013-015, protection des données à caractère personnel |
Take every precaution useful to preserve the security of personal data, including preventing unauthorized access, deformation, or damage, and use a processor only where it offers sufficient security and confidentiality guarantees, which does not relieve you of your own duty to see those guarantees are met. |
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| Personal Data Protection Act 2025, government personal-data protection principles |
Store or process personal data with technical and organizational security measures that protect against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against unintentional loss, destruction, or damage, and limit access to staff who need it for their duties. |
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| Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (LFPDPPP) |
Establish and maintain administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect personal data against damage, loss, alteration, destruction, or unauthorized use, access, or processing, at a level no lower than the measures you keep for your own information. |
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| Law No. 195/2024 on Personal Data Protection |
Implement technical and organisational measures giving a level of security appropriate to the risk. |
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| Loi sur la Protection des Données Personnelles |
Take appropriate technical and organisational security measures, including pseudonymisation and encryption, proportionate to the risk of destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorised disclosure of or access to the personal data you process. |
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| Law No. 09-08 on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data |
Implement technical and organizational measures appropriate to the risk and the state of the art, protecting personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, and unauthorized access, including where the processing involves network transmission. |
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| Electronic Transactions Law, Protection of Personal Electronic Data |
Protect personal data against risk, loss, unauthorised access, destruction, unauthorised use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Communications and Broadcasting Act 2018, confidentiality of subscriber information and communications |
Take reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of a subscriber's communications, and do not intercept, monitor, alter, or modify their content except as permitted or required by law. |
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| 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. Keep personal data confidential under a duty of professional secrecy that survives the end of your relationship with the data controller, releasable only by judicial order for reasons of national security, national defense, public security, or public health. |
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| Loi n° 2022-59, protection des données à caractère personnel |
Keep personal data confidential and implement technical and organizational measures against unauthorized access, loss or damage, including pseudonymization, encryption, and data protection by design and by default. |
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| Ley 81 de 2019, Sobre Protección de Datos Personales |
Keep confidential any personal data you access that did not come from a source open to the public, even after your relationship to the processing ends. Hand over stored personal data to a competent judicial authority only on a properly substantiated request, never in response to a bulk request, and, if you operate a public communications network, maintain the security measures this Law requires to protect it. |
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| Ley N° 7593/2025, de Protección de Datos Personales en la República del Paraguay from , in 12 months |
Take the security measures article 16 requires of a controller and of a processor. |
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| Ley 29733, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales |
Adopt technical, organizational, and legal measures that guarantee the security of personal data and prevent its alteration, loss, unauthorized processing, or access, and do not process personal data in a data bank that does not meet the Authority's security requirements. |
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| Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data |
Keep processing confidential and take precautions appropriate to the data and the risk to preserve its security, including against unauthorised access, alteration or loss. |
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| Law relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy |
Implement appropriate technical measures against loss, damage or destruction of personal data, verify regularly that they work, and keep them updated against new or identified risks. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2018 from a date not yet set |
Take practical steps to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or destruction, having regard to the nature of the data, its storage, and the personnel with access to it, and require a data processor you engage to give sufficient security guarantees and comply with them. |
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| Data Protection Act |
Take security measures appropriate to the risk of unauthorized access, alteration, or loss of personal data, taking the state of technology and the cost of the measures into account, and make sure staff know and follow them. |
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| San Marino Law No. 171 on the Protection of Natural Persons |
Implement technical and organisational measures giving a level of security appropriate to the risk, and cooperate with the Data Protection Authority in the performance of its tasks. |
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| Lei n.º 03/2016, Protecção de Dados Pessoais |
Implement appropriate technical and organizational measures against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, unauthorized alteration, disclosure or access to personal data, choose a subcontractor offering sufficient guarantees, bind it by contract to your instructions and the same measures, and record that contract in a document with legally recognized probative value. |
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| Data Protection Act No. 005 of 2023 |
Implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure personal data, taking into account the amount and sensitivity of the data and the harm its loss or misuse would cause. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) |
Secure the integrity and confidentiality of personal information in your possession with appropriate technical and organisational measures, identify the foreseeable risks to it, and keep those measures updated as risks change. |
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| Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data (Ontwerpwet Bescherming Privacy en Persoonsgegevens) proposed |
Take appropriate technical and organizational security measures against accidental or unauthorized access, destruction, loss, use, alteration, or disclosure of personal data, matched to the risk. |
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| Law No. 12 of 2024 on Protection of Electronic Personal Data |
Take the technical and organizational security measures the Authority approves to protect personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against loss or damage, and appoint a data protection officer, registered with the Authority, if you are a legal person. |
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| Loi n° 2019-014, protection des données à caractère personnel |
Take appropriate technical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized access to, alteration of, or loss of personal data, and keep the data usable regardless of changes in the storage technology used. |
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| Privacy Act 2025, comprehensive personal information protection regime from a date not yet set |
Implement appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational measures to prevent accidental, unauthorised or unlawful loss, misuse, destruction of or damage to personal information, and unlawful or unauthorised access to or processing of it. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011 |
Keep personal information accurate, complete and up to date as necessary for the purpose of collection, and protect it with safeguards appropriate to its sensitivity. |
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| Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, comprehensive personal-data regime |
Identify foreseeable risks to personal data in your possession, establish and maintain safeguards against them, verify regularly that the safeguards work, and update them as risks or deficiencies change. As an operator or other person processing personal data on a controller's behalf, treat the data as confidential and do not disclose it unless required by law or in the course of discharging your duty. |
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| Ley N° 18.331, Personal Data Protection and Habeas Data Law |
Adopt the security and confidentiality measures needed to prevent unauthorized alteration, loss, consultation, or processing of personal data, and store it so the data subject can exercise their right of access. |
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| Utah Consumer Privacy Act |
Establish reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security practices for personal data, and enter into a written contract with any processor before it processes personal data on your behalf. |
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| Data Protection and Privacy Act 2024, comprehensive personal data protection regime |
Process personal data with reasonable and appropriate security measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental or unauthorised access, destruction, loss, use, modification or disclosure. |
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| General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data for Vatican City State |
Where this Regulation binds your processing, identify the Data Controller as the Governorate, represented by the General Secretary, and put in place organizational and technical security measures suitable to protect the personal data you process. Appoint a Representative in writing where the Regulation calls for one, and record the activity in the Register of treatment activities. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2021, personal data processing framework |
Implement security safeguards proportionate to the risk, including pseudonymisation and encryption, measures against misuse, unauthorised access, modification, disclosure or destruction, and data protection policies, and review them periodically against the Commissioner's guidelines. |
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| Cyber and Data Protection Act [Chapter 12:07] |
Take the security measures section 18 requires, keep your processing open as section 23 requires, and be accountable for it as section 24 requires. |
Security baseline statutes
28 laws, 26 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Arkansas Personal Information Protection Act, reasonable security procedures |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal information you acquire, own, or license, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Law No. 455-Z, Information System Operator's Duty to Protect Information (Article 40) |
Ensure the integrity and safety of the information your system holds. Take measures to prevent disclosure, loss, distortion, destruction, or unauthorized modification of that information, and to prevent blocking of legitimate access to it. |
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| Customer Records Act, Reasonable Security Procedures |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal information you own, license, or maintain, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Data Security Law, Data Security Protection Obligations |
Take the technical measures and other necessary measures appropriate to your processing to keep your data secure. |
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| Protection of personal identifying information, reasonable security procedures duty |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the information and the nature and size of the business, to protect personal identifying information (a Social Security number, a personal identification number, a password or pass code, a state driver's license or identification card number, a government passport number, biometric data, an employer, student, or military identification number, or a financial transaction device) from unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure, or destruction. |
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| Connected device provider's duty to protect recorded personal information with reasonable security measures |
Implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect any personally identifying information collected through the connected device's camera or microphone from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, disclosure, modification or use. |
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| Protection of Social Security Numbers and Personal Information Act, safeguarding and destruction duty |
Safeguard the data, computer files and documents containing that personal information from misuse by third parties, and destroy, erase or make them unreadable before disposal. |
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| Computer Security Breaches, protection of personal information |
Implement and maintain reasonable procedures and practices to prevent the unauthorized acquisition, use, modification, disclosure, or destruction of that personal information, collected or maintained in the regular course of business. |
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| Security requirements for personal information (Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2020) |
Implement and maintain reasonable security safeguards, including procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal information you hold and to your own nature and size. |
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| Florida Information Protection Act, data security and disposal duty |
Take reasonable measures to protect and secure data in electronic form containing personal information. The statute states no further content for what 'reasonable' requires beyond this general standard. |
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| Personal Information Protection Act, data security duty |
Implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect those records from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Disclosure of Security Breach Act, data base owner's duty to maintain reasonable security procedures and dispose of records |
Implement and maintain reasonable procedures, including taking any appropriate corrective action, to protect and safeguard from unlawful use or disclosure any personal information of Indiana residents you collect or maintain. |
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| Kansas Consumer Protection Act, reasonable security and records-destruction duty for holders of personal information |
Implement and maintain reasonable procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, and exercise reasonable care to protect it from unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure. Being subject to and compliant with another federal or state law or regulation governing the same procedures and practices is deemed compliance with this duty. |
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| Database Security Breach Notification Law, reasonable security procedures and destruction duty |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to protect personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Maryland Personal Information Protection Act (MPIPA), safeguards and secure-disposal duty |
Absent that safe harbor, implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the personal information held and the size of the business, to protect it from unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth |
Develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive written information security program (WISP), in one or more readily accessible parts, with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to your size, scope, resources, amount of stored data, and the sensitivity of the personal information you hold. For personal information you store or transmit electronically, build a computer-system security program with secure user authentication, access controls limiting records to those who need them, encryption of records transmitted across public networks or wirelessly and of personal information stored on a laptop or other portable device, up-to-date firewalls and operating-system security patches for any internet-connected system, up-to-date malware protection, and employee training on the security system. |
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| Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor, Electronic Transaction Security Duty (Arts. 76 Bis, 76 Bis 1) |
Use an available technical security element to give security and confidentiality to that consumer information, and tell the consumer, before the transaction closes, the general characteristics of that element. Follow the Secretaria de Economia's Norma Mexicana for electronic commerce, which requires among other things reliable technical security mechanisms that guarantee the protection and confidentiality of the consumer's personal information and of the transaction itself. |
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| Senate Bill 360 (2025-2026), Identity Theft Protection Act reasonable security procedures duty proposed |
As passed by the Senate, a person (any private entity) or agency (a Michigan state government unit) that owns, possesses, collects, or accesses personal information must implement and maintain reasonable security procedures: designate a security coordinator, identify internal and external risks, include appropriate safeguards addressing those risks, assess the safeguards' effectiveness, contractually require every service provider to maintain safeguards conforming to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 or another industry-standard framework, and evaluate and adjust the procedures for changed circumstances. |
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| Law on Information Security, General Security Measures |
Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data you process, store or transmit through the planning, design, construction, use, maintenance and decommissioning of that system (Article 15). |
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| Financial Data Protection and Consumer Notification of Data Security Breach Act, security procedures and practices duty |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature and sensitivity of the personal information held and to the nature, size, and resources of the business and its operations, including safeguards that protect the information when it is disposed of. |
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| Security measures for data collectors maintaining personal information |
Implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect those records from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Data Breach Notification Act, security and disposal duties |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices, appropriate to the nature of the personal identifying information held, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Ohio Data Protection Act, cybersecurity program safe harbor |
To seek that defense, create, maintain, and comply with a written cybersecurity program with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, covering personal information alone or personal information together with restricted information, and scale the program to the covered entity's size and complexity, the nature and scope of its activities, the sensitivity of the information protected, the cost and availability of security tools, and the resources available to it. |
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| Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act, requirement to develop safeguards for personal information |
Develop, implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of personal information, including its secure disposal. Satisfy this duty either by already being subject to and complying with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Title V regulations, HIPAA and HITECH regulations, or another state or federal law providing greater protection, or by implementing an information security program with a designated coordinator, a periodic risk assessment, employee training, vetted service-provider contracts, network and software risk assessment and patch management, attack detection and testing, and secure destruction of records when the information is no longer needed. |
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| Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015, risk-based information security program |
Implement and maintain a risk-based information security program with reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to your size and scope, the nature of the information, and the purpose for which it was collected, to protect the information from unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction, or disclosure and to preserve its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. |
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| Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, business duty to protect sensitive personal information |
Implement and maintain reasonable procedures, including taking any appropriate corrective action, to protect that sensitive personal information from unlawful use or disclosure. The statute states no further content for what 'reasonable' requires beyond this general standard. |
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| Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act |
To claim the defense against a claim of failing to implement reasonable information security controls, failing to appropriately respond to a breach, or failing to appropriately notify an affected individual, have in place at the time of the breach a written cybersecurity program designed to protect the type of personal information at issue and scaled to your size, complexity, activities, and the sensitivity of the information you hold. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act, reasonable procedures and records-destruction duty |
Implement and maintain reasonable procedures to prevent the unlawful use or disclosure of that personal information. The statute states no further content for what 'reasonable' requires beyond this general standard. |
Sensitive categories
19 laws, 19 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law No. 124/2024, special categories of personal data, criminal records and children's data |
Do not process sensitive data about race or ethnic origin unless the processing ensures justice and equality on that ground and carries appropriate safeguards, and put appropriate technical and security safeguards in place before relying on any Article 9 exception. |
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| Loi n° 18-07 relative à la protection des personnes physiques, catégories de données sensibles et biométriques |
If you are the judicial authority, a body legally empowered to investigate offences, a judicial auxiliary or the prison administration processing personal data under Title V bis for the prevention or detection of offences, investigations, inquiries, criminal prosecutions or the execution of sentences, put in place technical and organisational measures giving an appropriate level of protection for sensitive and biometric data. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, sensitive data categories |
Notify the Agência de Protecção de Dados of sensitive-data processing carried out under a legal provision, and carry it out with guarantees of non-discrimination and special security measures. |
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| Ley 25.326, sensitive data categories and health data |
As a health establishment or health professional, collect and process a patient's physical or mental health data under the rules of professional secrecy. |
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| AB 1159 (2026), student personal information (KOPIPA, ELPIPA and the Higher Education Student Information Protection Act) from , in 7 weeks |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information (Section 22584(d)(1)). |
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| Loi n° 24.001 portant protection des données à caractère personnel, données sensibles et mineurs |
Get a data subject's explicit consent, and apply extra security and organisational safeguards, before processing a sensitive category of data such as racial origin, biometric or genetic data, health data, or political, religious, or trade union information. When a processing activity involves sensitive data or a particularly vulnerable person's data, put additional organizational and technical safeguards in place and give that person heightened information before you process it. |
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| Rulebook on Processing Health and Other Personal Data in National Health Information Systems, Security Measures and Access Rules |
If you are a software provider in these systems, keep the personal data you learn permanently confidential and take the technical and organizational measures needed to secure confidentiality, integrity and availability (Article 9, paragraphs 2 and 3). |
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| e-Health Law Articles 26 to 27 and 32 to 35, Provider Records Banks, Access Logging and Confidentiality of Health Data from a date not yet set |
Keep the health data in the Provider Bank fully confidential, and have your authorized employees do the same (Article 27, paragraph 3). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2022, sensitive personal information |
Where you process a data subject's health or sexual life information under a listed exemption and are not otherwise bound by a confidentiality duty, treat the information as confidential unless required by law or your duties to disclose it. |
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| Personal Data Protection Proclamation, sensitive personal data and minors |
Where an exception does permit sensitive personal data to be processed, put appropriate technical and security safeguards in place first. |
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| Anti-Money-Laundering Regulation, Special Categories and Criminal Offence Data Processed by Obliged Entities (Articles 76 and 77(3)) from , in 8 months |
Adopt measures of a high level of security in accordance with Article 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular in terms of confidentiality, for personal data covered by Article 9 of that Regulation (Article 76(2), point (d)). |
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| Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública, protección de datos personales y hábeas data |
Keep personal data protected at all times, and let access to it proceed only by judicial order or at the request of the person whose data it is. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011, sensitive personal information |
Where you process a data subject's health or sexual life information under a listed exemption and are not otherwise bound by a confidentiality duty, treat the information as confidential unless required by law or your duties to disclose it. |
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| Insurance Sector Law Article 181-3, Lawful Processing of Health Data by Insurers and Reinsurers |
If you are an insurance or reinsurance undertaking, process health data other than genetic data only where necessary for pre-contractual measures or for performing an insurance or reinsurance contract, and respect professional secrecy under Article 300 of the Law of (Article 181-3, paragraph 1). |
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| Ontario | Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, custodian and agent duties: consent, safeguards, information practices and marketing |
Take steps that are reasonable in the circumstances to protect personal health information against theft, loss and unauthorized use or disclosure, and records against unauthorized copying, modification or disposal. |
| Ley N° 6534/2020, de Protección de Datos Personales Crediticios |
Provide credit-reference services only as a credit-information company (a Buró de Información Crediticia) authorized by the Banco Central del Paraguay, supply them only to the identified users article 14 lists, keep credit data lawful, accurate, complete and up to date, retain it for no more than five years from the recorded event unless a special rule sets another period or the parties agree a shorter one, and protect it with security measures and a duty of secrecy. |
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| Lei n.º 03/2016, sensitive categories and suspect records |
Where you process health or sex-life data, including genetic data, for preventive medicine, diagnosis, care or health-service management, do so only through a health professional or another person bound by professional secrecy, notify NAPPD of the processing, and secure it with appropriate information-security measures. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act, special personal information and children |
Only process a data subject's biometric information or record of criminal behaviour where you are a body charged with applying criminal law or you obtained the information lawfully, and put appropriate safeguards in place before relying on any special personal information exception. |
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| Law No. 12 of 2024 on Protection of Electronic Personal Data, sensitive personal data |
Follow the information security plans, policies and procedures the Authority sets for protecting sensitive personal data, through your data protection officer and the staff under their supervision. |
Sector security regimes
10 laws, 10 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Loi n° 1/10, Articles 3, 4(3) and 14: security-of-service duty and diligence penalty for network operators and service providers |
Exercise the diligence and competence necessary to prevent the disclosure of computer data you hold on behalf of a third party, or face a fine of 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 Burundian francs (BIF) under Article 14. |
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| OSFI Guideline B-10, Third-Party Risk Management |
Establish and maintain measures with the third party to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of records and data throughout the arrangement. |
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| DORA, Articles 5-16 (ICT Risk Management Framework) |
Continuously monitor and control the security and functioning of your ICT systems and deploy ICT security policies, procedures, protocols and tools that keep data available, authentic, intact and confidential at rest, in use and in transit. Document an information security policy, policies that limit physical and logical access to what is needed, strong authentication mechanisms and protection of cryptographic keys, ICT change management, and policies for patches and updates, and design network connections so that they can be instantaneously severed or segmented (Article 9). |
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| Loi n° 2024-449 (SREN), Security Criteria for State Use of Private Cloud Services Holding Sensitive Data |
Where the system or application processes data of particular sensitivity (data protected as secrets by law, or data needed for the State's essential missions) and a breach could harm public order, public security, health or life, or intellectual property protection, see that the cloud service applies security and data-protection criteria that protect the data against access by the public authorities of third States not authorized by Union or Member State law (Article 31, I and II). |
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| Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG), Section 165 Technical and Organisational Protective Measures |
If you provide telecommunications services or contribute to them, take appropriate technical precautions and other measures, taking the state of the art into account, to protect the secrecy of telecommunications and against personal-data breaches (Section 165(1)). |
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| Telecommunications Act 2007, Security Safeguards for Customer Information and Communications |
Ensure that customer information and customer communications in your custody or control are protected by security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity. |
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| FSM Telecommunications Act of 2014, Security Safeguards for Customer Information |
Apply appropriate security safeguards to prevent the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of a customer's information without the customer's consent. |
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| DFS Guidance: Cybersecurity Risks Arising from Artificial Intelligence and Strategies to Combat Related Risks |
The Department states that the regulation requires you to monitor the activity of authorized users and email and web traffic to block malicious content and protect against the installation of malicious code, and says that if you use AI-enabled products or services or allow personnel to use AI applications you should also consider monitoring for unusual query behaviors that might indicate an attempt to extract nonpublic information and blocking queries that might expose it to a public AI product or system. |
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| Telecommunications Act 2009, Security Safeguards for Consumer Information |
Apply appropriate security safeguards to prevent the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of a consumer's information. |
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| Law on Communications, network and subscriber-information protection duties |
Ensure the safekeeping of subscriber information obtained on contracting and about services rendered, including their duration, content, and routing, and protect that information during automated processing. |
Enforcement supervision
5 laws, 5 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, enforcement and supervision |
Keep personal data confidential once bound by professional secrecy, on pain of imprisonment of up to eighteen months, rising to two years for a public official, a financial gain motive, or harm to the data subject's reputation or privacy. |
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| Personal Data Protection Act, 2026, complaints, penalties and appeals from a date not yet set |
Honor each right the Act gives a data principal, and give personal data the protection and security that the Act, its rules and regulations or the general operating procedure prescribe, a biometric identifier included (ss.32 and 33). |
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| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data, enforcement and supervision |
Keep personal data confidential once bound by professional secrecy, on pain of imprisonment from six months to three years or a fine of eighty to two hundred days, increased by half for a civil servant, a financial gain motive, or endangering another person's reputation, honor or private life. |
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| CCPA/CPRA Enforcement: California Privacy Protection Agency and Private Right of Action |
Maintain reasonable security procedures for a California consumer's unencrypted, unredacted personal information; a breach caused by their absence exposes your business to a private lawsuit for $100 to $750 in statutory damages per consumer per incident, which cannot be cured by improving security after the fact. |
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| Cyber and Data Protection (Licensing of Data Controllers and Appointment of Data Protection Officers) Regulations, 2024 |
Process personal data securely by appropriate technical and organisational measures, including risk assessments, organisational policies, physical and technical measures across all data phases, and processes to test how effective they are and to make the improvements they show are needed. |
Product security requirements
4 laws, 4 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Security of Connected Devices |
Equip the device with a security feature or features appropriate to its nature, function, and the information it may collect, contain, or transmit, designed to protect the device and that information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. |
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| Security of Networks and Information Systems Law, Radio Equipment Cybersecurity Requirements |
Incorporate safeguards to protect the personal data and privacy of the equipment's users and subscriber, and support features protecting against fraud. |
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| Cyber Resilience Act, Essential Requirements and Manufacturer Obligations from , in 13 months |
Design, develop, and produce the product, on the basis of your cybersecurity risk assessment and where each requirement applies, so it ships without known exploitable vulnerabilities, with a secure default configuration (unless you agree otherwise with a business user for a tailor-made product), protection against unauthorised access, and protection of the confidentiality of stored, transmitted or otherwise processed data, such as by encrypting relevant data at rest or in transit. |
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| Security requirements for Internet-connected devices |
Equip the connected device with reasonable security features appropriate to its nature, function and the information it may collect, store or transmit, satisfied by giving each device a unique preprogrammed authentication credential or by requiring the user to generate new credentials before first use, or by complying with an applicable federal security requirement for connected devices. |
Breach notification
2 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Arkansas Personal Information Protection Act, breach notification and security |
Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect Arkansas residents' personal information, and dispose of records containing it in a manner that renders the information unreadable or undecipherable. |
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| Personal Data Protection Act, 2022, security and breach notification |
Protect personal data with security safeguards reasonable in the circumstances. |
Cross border transfer
2 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Personal Data Protection Law, cross-border transfer of personal data |
Before any transfer of personal data outside Burkina Faso, obtain the CIL's authorization, sign a data confidentiality and reversibility clause with the receiving party letting data migrate back fully at the end of the contract, and put in place technical and organizational security measures covering encryption, availability, confidentiality, integrity and resilience. |
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| Resolución 58/2022 (MINCOM), security and localization rules for personal data in electronic form |
Guarantee the security of personal data in electronic form and adopt the necessary technical and administrative measures for its processing. |
Adult content age verification (AV)
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2026 proposed |
Store the data collected and retained for age verification securely for a period of 5 years, using technical and organisational measures that provide a level of security appropriate to the harm that might result from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration or unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, the data. |
Age-appropriate design code
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| S.69 (2025), Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (Act 63 of 2025) from , in 7 weeks |
Protect age assurance data. |
Social media and minors
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Act 952 of 2025 (HB1717), Arkansas Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act |
Establish, implement and maintain reasonable security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of the personal information of children and teens. |
Vulnerability and incident reporting
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Cybersecurity Law, Incident Response and Reporting Duties |
Apply technical measures to secure data processing, including personal-data processing, consistent with this Law, Vietnam's law on data, and its Law on Personal Data Protection. |
Full text of the NIST Privacy Framework, public domain (a US government work). Every control of the framework.