Law note · Tajikistan
Law on the Protection of Personal Data, comprehensive regime
What it requires
- An app that collects or processes the personal data of individuals in Tajikistan must obtain the subject's consent, limit processing to a specific, predetermined, lawful purpose, and notify the subject of the data collected about them with a right to correction.
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
Law No. 1537 binds the possessor (обладатель), operator (оператор), and third party (третье лицо) generally, terms not confined to private actors.
Art. 8 requires the subject's consent, or their legal representative's, for collection and processing, subject to Art. 9's exceptions, not read article by article for this document; processing must be limited to specific, predetermined, lawful purposes, proportionate and accurate, with the subject notified of data collected about them and given a correction right. Art. 3 exempts purely personal or family-use processing that does not infringe others' rights.
Art. 27 provides that the Law is brought into force after its official publication, rather than on a fixed post-signature delay; the Ministry of Justice's own legal acts portal records the document's start of effect as 3 August 2018, the same day it was signed. The Law's own gazette citation (Akhbori Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan issue and item number) was not found in the primary text fetched this pass and is not asserted here.