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ARTICLE · 27 JANUARY 2025

PIPA Access Requests In Bermuda – What You Need To Know

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With the Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (PIPA) now in full effect (from 1 January 2025), individuals have new rights, including the right to access personal...

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With the Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (PIPA) now in full effect (from 1 January 2025), individuals have new rights, including the right to access personal information held by organisations about them. Requests can be made by submitting an access request. Note, whilst PIPA does not prescribe the form of an access request, the Privacy Commissioner has now published guidance (see below link) which, amongst other matters, explains how individuals can make access requests.

Scope of access requests

PIPA requires individuals to set out in sufficient detail the identity of the information in respect to which a request is made. As such, access requests are commonly limited by reference to subject matter, dates and, in relation to emails, seek to identify the persons sending or receiving the emails. However, if the request is not sufficiently precise the employer can seek that the requester limit the scope and this can pause the timeframe for responding to the

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