On the occasion of Data Privacy Day an awareness program was  organized at Lord Buddha Education Foundation, Maitidevi Kathmandu by Rayznews in collaboration of CSRI and ICT frame 28th January 2020. The program focused on cyber security issues in the context of developing nations and their challenges. Data security and compliance  has been a major issue where lack of awareness and capacity building is a major challenges. The participants expressed their concerned about the rigid policies and regulation where technology needs to be compatible to laws rather than users being compatible to policies. 

1. DATA PRIVACY AND ITS
PRACTICE IN NEPAL
BY SHREEDEEP RAYAMAJHI

2. WHAT IS DATA PRIVACY ?
Data privacy, also called information privacy, is the aspect of information technology
(IT) that deals with the ability an organization or individual has to determine what
data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.

3. STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE
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Government
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Private
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Technical
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Academics
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Public and users
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Others

4. CURRENT PROVISION IN NEPAL
Article 28 of Constitution of Nepal states,“Right to privacy: The privacy of any
person, his or her residence, property, document, data, correspondence and
matters relating to his or her character shall, except in accordance with law, be
inviolable. ”
Civil code Act: Under the Sections 293 to 308 has been clearly guided the
new rules and regulation related privacy and defamation and if proven
guilty there is three years of imprisonment.

5. GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a
regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the
European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals
within the European Union (EU).
The GDPR covers the companies that collect data on citizens in EU countries will need to
comply with strict new rules around protecting customer data by May 25, 2018. GDPR is
expected to set a new standard for consumer rights regarding their data, but companies
will be challenged as they put systems and processes in place to comply.

6. PRIVACY DATA PROTECTED BY GDPR :
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Basic identity information such as name, address and ID
numbers
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Web data such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID
tags
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Health and genetic data
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Biometric data
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Racial or ethnic data
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Political opinions
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Sexual orientation

8. RIGHT to Privacy ACT of Nepal
Safeguarding the right to privacy of the general
public there is a provision of jail sentence up to
three years or fine up to NRs 30,000 or both for
violating individual’s right to privacy.