A Guide to Litigating Identity Systems
c) Justice Batts of the Jamaican Supreme Court holds that the envisioned
Jamaican identity system’s mechanism for disclosure of data to police
lacks adequate protections and safeguards.140 Justice Batts would
require any mechanism for disclosing data to security services to include
an opportunity to be heard by the individual affected and a limitation on
the time period for which data can be retained.141
140 Opinion of Justice Batts, ¶ 366.
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Opinion of Justice Batts, ¶ 366.
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