JFJ wants data controllers to help educate citizens on their rights

 

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) wants people and organisations handling personal data of individuals to play a more active role in educating Jamaicans about their rights under the Data Protection Act.

 

JFJ's Executive Director, Mickel Jackson, believes this will demonstrate the commitment of data controllers to the law and help data subjects hold them accountable.

 

"Let's have our data controllers be champions of human rights for the cause where they are the ones who are telling us as data subjects, 'These are your rights that you have. If any of my employees or our system breaches those rights, this is how you can have the right to appeal, the right to rectification.' That's what we want to see coming from our data controllers," she asserted. 

 

Ms. Jackson was delivering the keynote address Wednesday at the Office of the Information Commission's annual data protection conference in New Kingston.