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DHAKA, June 28, 2025 (BSS) - Faiz Ahmed Taiyeb, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, today said data classification is being incorporated into the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA).
He said this while addressing a seminar at the Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB) in the capital.
Taiyeb said the part of the data that identifies the person is being classified. The purpose of this is to have separate storage for Personal Identification Information (PII) in the country so that it does not go outside the country, he added.
Among these, he said, confidential information, such as health records or financial data, can be used under specified conditions and through a transparent process. The part of the data that contains images, videos, and speech can be stored anywhere through a mapping, but the storage of PII must be kept in the country, he added.
Taiyeb said that the Cyber Security Ordinance has brought all content produced and prepared with artificial intelligence to the boundaries of cyberspace and brought it under the ambit of crime.
PIB Director General Farooq Wasif said the state has become a factory of lies and the media has become its supporter in the last 15 years.
He said it is not possible to deal with misinformation just by fact-checking. It has to be transformed into a social movement, he added.
Mamun-or-Rashid, consultant of the Bangladesh Computer Council's Enhancement of Bengali Language in Information Technology (EBLICT) project through research and development, presented the keynote paper at the seminar.
