UNICEF’s latest State of the World’s Children Report states 1 in 5 children are unvaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to a range of vaccine-preventable diseases.
As we
reported earlier, the Law “On Personal Data” was amended in January 2021. The amendments prescribe a new obligation on localizing the personal data of Uzbek citizens. These changes came
into force on April 16, 2021 (Data Localization Law).
We also
reported about the government’s plans to use restriction of access to online resources as a sanction for non-compliance. This proposal has been adopted and entered into force from the date of its publication on April 30, 2021.
The document introduces a special registry (
Registry) to list the data controllers and processors who breach data localization processing rules (
Infringers). As a sanction, the access to online resources of the Infringers may be
State Personalization Centre (“
DPA”) studies the non-compliance cases, formalizes its opinion on the detected breach and sends it to the State Inspectorate for Control in the Field of Informatization and Telecommunications (
UzComSupervisor);
UzComSupervisor sends a prescription to the Infringer, requesting them to cure their breach within the period specified in the prescription;
If the Infringer fails to cure the breach and report back to UzComSupervisor by the prescribed deadline, the case shall be referred to the court within three days;
Once the court confirms the breach, UzComSupervisor records the Infringer s online resource into the Registry and the ICT ministry takes measures to restrict access to the online resource within 12 hours.