Deposit Portability: a Legal requirement, Not at Strategic Option

07 Jul 2023

Based on recent pronouncements by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) the BOJ is currently pioneering the development of strategies to make deposit portability a reality. Their ambition is commendable: to enable both the banked and unbanked to seamlessly shift between various banks, while maintaining their standing instructions and circumventing the traditionally cumbersome account opening procedures […]

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Urgent Data Protection Concerns in the Sharing of Data between Auditor General’s Department and FID: Safeguarding Privacy in the Pursuit of Justice

07 Jul 2023

Introduction: In the digital age where personal data is increasingly vulnerable and can be subject to state abuse. More so in the advent of the  2019  NIDS decision (Julian Robinson v The Attorney General) that declared that our right to informational privacy is guaranteed by the Constitution , the recent strategic partnership between the Auditor […]

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Statin and Direct Marketing: A case study

13 Nov 2022

Did any one give the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin), the memo that there is now a Data Protection Act(DPA) and that sending out promotional text messages is circumscribed under the legislation and that they are subject to the law in the same manner that

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