As far as I know, Egypt is the last country which enacted the Data Protection Law on 13 July 2020. Accordingly, the total number of countries with data protection law is 143. Is there any update other than this?
This is a very interesting data to know. Which is your source for this number (143)?
In Graham Greenleaf and Bertil Cottier, ‘2020 End a Decade of 62 New Data Privacy Laws’ (2020) 163 Privacy Laws & Business International Report 24-26, 1 , there is an account of 142 countries with data protection law. The article was written in January 2020, and in July 2020, Egypt passed its data protection law. Therefore, my estimation shows that there are 143 countries with data protection law. My humble question is whether there is any other update? @ Montserrat Gas-Aixendri
Christian Pauletto Thanks for the insight. The figures show that soon we will have 100% coverage regarding data protection laws. But what happens after that? I am sure we should begin to think about compliance and implementation as you put it. Many countries including my country Ghana have beautiful laws on data protection and privacy. Nonetheless, we still have issues of data misuse every now and then.
Thanks, everyone for joining. Hopefully, the question made considerable impressions on all concerned. I am agreed with Joshua Ofoeda to the fact that the law may reach 100% worldwide coverage, but what next? Is the world would become free from privacy invasion? Probably not, but if the laws can curb the privacy breach incidents to a considerable number that will nonetheless be a great achievent.
Thank you so much dear Christian Pauletto for joining. I must read your recent article, as shared here.
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