BeirutLebanon’s data protection law remains unenforced as AI rules loom.
Citizens still need intermediaries for simple procedures, and new government platforms keep suffering security breaches.
Lebanon’s Internet Governance Forum met 6 and 7 October, and officials promised digital transformation and AI governance.
SMEX’s Abed Kataya demands mandatory public consultation before any digital law or policy is adopted.
How each outlet framed it
- SMEX leans critical
- contrasts AI-legislation drafting with unenforced data-protection and information-access laws, and notes the 'Digital Resilience' theme at the Lebanon IGF
Sources: SMEX