Law note · Bhutan

Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, user review and removal rights

cite Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, ss.338(3), 340 stage IMMINENT commencement not set kind Data subject rights binds private bodies reviewed 2026-08-29

What it requires

An ICT or media service provider or vendor in Bhutan must let a user review and, when necessary, have their personal information, including a biometric identifier, amended or removed, and must remove or withdraw information upon the user's request.

When LexLint raises it

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What we found

Section 338(3) requires an ICT and Media facility or service provider and vendor to let users or consumers review and, when necessary, have their information amended or removed. Section 340 requires information to be removed or withdrawn upon a user's request. These rights run specifically against an ICT/Media provider under Chapter 17; no equivalent named right was found running against a general Chapter 21 data handler. No express portability right was found.

Primary source

official Act text
via a journalist-federation mirror of the government-issued PDF (samsn.ifj.org), since the government's own hosting domains had live TLS failures this pass

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