Data Protection Atlas

Bhutan

Tier 3 Sectoral / partial Asia-Pacific

Principal framework: ICM Act 2018 (privacy provisions) (2018). Regulator: —.

At a glance

Principal law
Bhutan Information, Communications and Media Act 2018; National Digital Identity Act 2023
Regulator
No dedicated authority

Structure

Structural pattern
Not assessed
Sub-jurisdictions
None — no sub-national axis
ISO code
BT

A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.

Transfers and adequacy

EU member
No
EEA member
No

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Sources

No source recorded yet. This record cannot rise above Tier 3 until it has one — see depth tiers.

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.