Wednesday 3 December, 2025
Supervisory authorities face numerous challenges in implementing data privacy laws, whether they are an emerging authority implementing a new law or a well-established authority having to consider how to modify the implementation of an existing law.
The nascent authority may, for example, have significant staffing or budgetary constraints or additional mandates to implement telecommunications and/or financial laws. The well-established authority may have to simplify or improve its current data privacy law implementation due to the interplay with different sectoral laws, regulations or technological developments. It may need to consider how to simplify the current implementation of the national data privacy law.
In the GSMA’s 2019 Smart Data Privacy Laws report, 14 guiding principles were outlined, aimed at helping governments, policymakers and organisations to develop effective, future-proof data privacy frameworks.
This report builds on the 2019 report by providing insight into the implementation of each relevant principle, compiling learnings and good practice from around the world to assist those looking to implement data privacy laws in their market.
