Instead of amending the law, work on practice: the NCPD spoke about the approach to the protection of personal data

Recently, it became known that Belarus has decided not to amend the Law on the Protection of Personal Data. Details of this decision today, November 11, called the Director of the National center for personal data protection Andrey Gaev at a press presentation in the National press center, writes sb.by.

The law on personal data protection has been in force in Belarus for five years. It was reported that soon this document is awaiting major adjustments. A bill was prepared, which was submitted to the Council of Ministers. However, in late October, the document was excluded from the plans for 2026. Andrey Gaev explained that monitoring and sociological research have shown the absence of global issues requiring revision of legal norms. Therefore, it was decided to keep the law as it was. However, there are plans to improve the practice of its application, Andrei Gaev said:

Questions that need to be resolved in terms of clarification will be reflected in the adjustment of other normative and legal acts. For example, when adjusting the Housing Code, the issues of video surveillance in owners' associations will be clarified. Issues related to clearer regulation of video surveillance and audio recordings, using artificial intelligence technologies, outsourcing in the organization of internal control over the processing of personal data will be resolved.

Andrey Gaev added that the issue of increasing fines for violating the law on personal data was discussed. Now they are 50 basic values. Based on the experience of other countries, Belarus decided that protective fines are not a panacea and often have the opposite effect, so it is much more effective to focus on legal education and the formation of conditions for the implementation of the law.