Today is World Environment Day—a day dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness about the environment, so I thought I would write a bit about ‘decarbonisation’: what it is, why we need it, and how we can achieve it.
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There is no law that protects something as poetic as the subject matter protected by intellectual property laws: the human genius. Trade mark law, patent law, and copyright revolve around sophisticated subjects such as distinctness, novelty, and originality as they attempt to protect society’s greatest innovations. From medicines that cure our bodily ailments and spacecraft that explore the galaxy, to music that treats our souls and novels that transport us across both time and space.
After being in the making for almost a decade, the Omani Personal Data Protection Law is finally out. This vital piece of legislation aims at protecting what is considered by many as the most fundamental right in the digital age, and one that those living in this country badly needed. While there is no doubt that this law is groundbreaking for the Omani legal system, it only provides the bare minimum of rights in comparison to contemporary data protection laws elsewhere, includes wide exemptions for government entities to process personal data without the need to comply with the law, and leaves a significant amount of critical specifics to a future executive regulation that will be issued by the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology (MTCIT).