92 No. 3 of
Act No. 15 of
2009
2021]
Data Protection
“Authority” means the Zambia Information Communications
and Technology Authority established by the Information
Communications and Technologies Act, 2009;
“automated” in relation to data, means electronically
transmitted in whole or in part, by means of a data message
in which the conduct of a data message of one or more
parties are not reviewed by a natural person in the
operation of the electronic system, in the ordinary course
of that natural person’s business or employment;
“biometric data” means Personal data resulting from scientific
analysis relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural
characteristics of a natural person, which confirm the unique
identification of that natural person;
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“child” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Constitution;
“child abuse” includes physical and emotional neglect, physical
injury, other than accidental injury, ill treatment and sexual
abuse of a child;
“child abuse data” means personal data consisting of
information as to whether the child data subject is or has
been thesubject of, or may be at risk of, child abuse;
“code of conduct” means a data protection charter approved
by the Authority which regulates the conduct of a data
controller or data processor, in order to ensure that the
data controller or data processor of personal data complies
with this Act and any other applicable written law;
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2010
“Commission” means the Competition and Consumer
Protection Commission established by the Competition
and Consumer Protection Act, 2010;
“consent” means any written, freely given, specific, informed
and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes
by which such data subject, by a statement or by a clear
affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing
of personal data relating to that data subject;
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2010
“consumer” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2010;
“data” means numbers, letters, alphabetic or numeric strings,
symbols or codes in any form;