The importance of safeguarding data privacy has gained significant awareness in recent years. This is reflected in the growing commitment of governments to ensure data protection through legislative ...

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 ...

While the Act provides clarity to users on how their data can be used by corporations, it also provides clarity to companies (including startups) on how they must deal with users’ personal data, and ...

The entry into force of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and Rules has effectively overturned more than 20 years of ...

When we had the first reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill in October last year, I’m not sure many of us would have speculated it would take eight months before it became statute, but it did.

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 ...

More data breaches, more AI cases. Data protection authorities are at their limit. The reason is AI, but also cheap ...