Mauritius on Privacy Protection

The GDPR which came into force on 25 May 2018 brought radical changes to data privacy laws in the EU, thus impacting businesses, regardless of whether they have a corporate presence in the EU or use EU based assets...

The DPA 2004 was largely based on the EU Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and free movement of such data, and was supplemented by the Data Protection Regulations 2009.

The Tribunal held that the use of fingerprints for attendance purposes not expressly consented to by the employee was not in compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act.