“The Cyber Security Act needs reform. Action will most most likely be taken rapidly. I will work on this from my ministry,” Asif Nazrul said the previous day at a discussion titled “True to Data: The Supporting Characteristic of NGOs in Setting up Transparency and To blame Authorized Governance”
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30 September, 2024, 07:30 am
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Asif Nazrul, law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser to the meantime executive, said the manager will rapidly grab initiative to amend the Cyber Security Act.
“The Cyber Security Act needs reform. Action will most most likely be taken rapidly. I will work on this from my ministry,” he said the previous day at a discussion titled “True to Data: The Supporting Characteristic of NGOs in Setting up Transparency and To blame Authorized Governance”.
The True to Data (RTI) Dialogue board and the Foundation for Human Rights at the Bureau of NGO Affairs collectively organised the programme.
Asif Nazrul extra said, “We possess an absence of details about the steady to info. This steady is no longer cherish several diversified steady – all rights may maybe perhaps maybe be worthless without the steady to info. This steady is linked to each and every diversified steady.
“If the law, justice and governance divisions of the country are seemingly to be no longer in mutter, then the Data Commission or the Human Rights Commission is maybe no longer functional successfully.”
He additionally said folks who recommend for the steady to info must additionally relate out about the significance of free and comely elections, whereas elevating their voices against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
Iftekharuzzaman, govt director of Transparency Global Bangladesh (TIB), expressed dissatisfaction with the role of the Data Commission and proposed its reform in accordance with the views of all stakeholders.
Annoying reforms to the Data Commission, he said, “It is being trot by partisan folks which is rarely acceptable.”
He extra critical that people in most cases dangle no longer seek info, attributable to it be inaccessible when wished. Rather, so-called security companies in most cases violated folks’s rights for within the hunt for info. So, the True to Data Act additionally needs a form of adjustments.
Badiul Alam Majumdar, head of the electoral reform price, said voters are the upright owners of the sigh, and to permit them to have to possess gather admission to to sensitive info. It’s well-known for voters to be proactive and keep a query to such info.
“Steps ought to be taken to be obvious that that voters can additionally gather admission to details about political events. With out transparency internal political events, the steady to free info can no longer be fully realised,” he added.
Shaheen Anam, convener of the True to Data Dialogue board, said as an self sustaining organisation, the Data Commission has to this level no longer been in a arena to play a well-known role in preserving governments and democratic institutions to account.
