{"id":83923,"date":"2022-02-16T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=83923"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:58:25","slug":"cloud-policy-personal-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cloud-policy-personal-protection-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Cloud First Policy, Personal Data Protection Bill to enhance data security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal cabinet on Tuesday (February 15) gave the nod to Pakistan\u2019s first Cloud First Policy and Personal Data Protection Bill, news sources reported. Under the policy, all federal and provincial ministers will get central cloud data services ensuring data protection and management. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-mou-pakistan-digital-city-tax-holiday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP signs MoU for Pakistan Digital City with 10-yr tax holiday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the Federal Minister of Information Technology Syed Amin-ul-Haque stated that the programme would save government expenditure on enormous data centres while simultaneously increasing transparency and service efficiency. The government has classified data into five categories under the Cloud First Policy, based on its sensitivity and the level of security required. Among the five categories are:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Open data:<\/strong> Related to government transparency and work of public domain\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Public data:<\/strong> Related to public interest requiring no authorisation and open to the public\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Restricted data:<\/strong> Data related to public sector business, operations, and services is not sensitive\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Confidential data:<\/strong> The data and information not intended to be published but can be accessed with specific high-level authorisation\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Secret data:<\/strong> The data critical to the national interest, financial security or public order<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-digital-city-stz-haripur.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM inaugurates Pakistan Digital City-STZ in Haripur<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the minister, the strategy is an essential step in enhancing and bracing the country&#8217;s current infrastructure for the digital revolution. Similarly, the bill calls for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-licenses-five-digital-banks.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"83291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cloud Board<\/a>, which would be led by the Secretary of Information Technology and comprised of the chief secretaries of the four provinces and two IT specialists. The board will advise and provide technical expertise to the provinces and federal ministries for setting up cloud data centres. Similarly, the Personal Data Protection Bill would secure citizens&#8217; online data from any personal information violation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal cabinet on Tuesday (February 15) gave the nod to Pakistan\u2019s first Cloud First Policy and Personal Data Protection Bill, news sources reported. Under the policy, all federal and provincial ministers will get central cloud data services ensuring data protection and management. \u00a0 Read: KP signs MoU for Pakistan Digital City with 10-yr tax holiday According to reports, the Federal Minister of Information Technology Syed Amin-ul-Haque stated that the programme would save government expenditure on enormous data centres while simultaneously increasing transparency and service efficiency. The government has classified data into five categories under the Cloud First Policy, based on its sensitivity and the level of security required. Among the five categories are:\u00a0 Open data: Related to government transparency and work of public domain\u00a0 Public data: Related to public interest requiring no authorisation and open to the public\u00a0\u00a0 Restricted data: Data related to public sector business, operations, and services is not sensitive\u00a0\u00a0 Confidential data: The data and information not intended to be published but can be accessed with specific high-level authorisation\u00a0\u00a0 Secret data: The data critical to the national interest, financial security or public order Read: PM inaugurates Pakistan Digital City-STZ in Haripur According to the minister, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[51162,51165,51164],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-cabinet-approves-cloud-first-policy","9":"tag-digital-policy","10":"tag-personal-data-protection-bill","11":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt nods Cloud First Policy, Personal Data Protection Bill - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal cabinet on Tuesday (February 15) gave the nod to Pakistan\u2019s first Cloud First Policy and Personal Data Protection Bill, news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cloud-policy-personal-protection-bill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt nods Cloud First Policy, Personal Data Protection Bill - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal cabinet on Tuesday (February 15) gave the nod to Pakistan\u2019s first Cloud First Policy and Personal Data Protection Bill, news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cloud-policy-personal-protection-bill.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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