Botswana's newly enacted Data Protection Act provides a robust framework for safeguarding personal data. This statement was originally published on misa.org on 17 January 2025. The Act replaces the ...

UK data protection law is set to introduce a new statutory right for individuals to complain directly to organisations about how their personal data is handled. This change, introduced under the Data ...

Sir: In a significant stride towards safeguarding individual privacy, the Nigerian Data Protection Act (2023), was signed into law by President Bola Tinubu on June 12. This legislation builds upon the ...

We are living in a time when personal dignity is just a click away from violation. The ease with which deepfakes, intimate photos, and AI-generated information can be produced, disseminated, and used ...

Central to the dispute is Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act, which amends Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act under which personal information could be disclosed if it bore a relationship to public activity or ...

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre on a plea challenging key provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Petitioners, including The Reporters' Collective and journalist ...

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has commenced a sector-wide investigation of tertiary institutions across the country over alleged breaches of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, raising fresh ...

Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has commenced an investigation into over 1,000 education institutions across the country over compliance with the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDP Act), 2023.