Kazakhstan to introduce insurance requirement for personal data operatorsKazakhstan’s Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and the Aerospace Industry is mulling over the introduction of cyber insurance for personal data operators, said Ruslan Abdikalikov, the head of the ministry’s information security committee."We plan to introduce mandatory cyber insurance for personal data operators who process more than a million items of personal data. In case of is a personal data leak, the damage that the citizens have suffered will be compensated for by insurance companies, and the number of such citizens may be millions of people, as you may imagine," Abdikalikov said at a Friday briefing.The mandatory insurance requirement will stimulate the operators to better protect the personal data they store and process, according to Abdikalikov.In addition, the citizens will not have to go to court every time their personal information gets leaked, he added.Insurance of personal data is just a proposal, which is now under discussion, Abdikalikov said. (ICE ALMATY)

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