Malawi: Introduced Data Protection Bill 2023 including data protection regulation

On 7 December 2023, the Data Protection Bill 2023 was introduced in the Malawi Parliament. The Bill establishes several data processing principles including lawful processing, purpose limitation, data minimisation and accuracy and storage limitation. Furthermore, the Bill establishes data subjects certain rights such as the right to access personal data, the right to data portability, the right to rectification of personal data, the right to erasure of personal data, the right to restriction of processing personal data, right to object.