Rethinking Data Protection In Nigeria: Gaps And Opportunities

A Nigerian court has ordered Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, to pay $25,000 in damages to renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana, after finding the tech giant liable for violating his privacy.

While governments may cite various reasons for access requests, it is essential to examine such actions through the lens of data privacy principles. When the purpose for collecting personal data drifts into government surveillance, the very spirit of the fundamental right to privacy stands threatened

A romance scam occurs when a con artist deceives a victim into entering a phony love arrangement. To obtain money or enough personal information to steal their identity under pretenses or to perpetrate fraud against the victim, scammers frequently use a spurious online identity to win their victim’s trust.

The question is ‘who is own the copyright of software or website?’ Generally, a commissioned work done by an employee during the course of his employment will confer copyright on the employee except where it is expressly stated otherwise in the agreement.

The Nigeria Data Protection Regulation is the major provision addressing data privacy and protection in Nigeria. The regulation was issued by the National Information Technology Development Agency (Nigeria’s foremost agency responsible for regulating data privacy protection) in 2019 to comprehensively regulate the use of data in the state. It is a copycat of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016