While the government is celebrating a step towards data protection with a law modelled after the EU's data protection law, experts are expressing grave concern about it being another tool for surveillance and repression.

What aspects of the law are causing these concerns? Will this law be stained with accusations of misuse similar to the Digital Security Act?

In Straight from Star Newsroom, Farhana Ahmed discusses the personal data protection law and how it can be used or misused with The Daily Star's reporter Zyma Islam.