Nigeria will on Saturday January 28, 2023 join the international community to observe Global Data Privacy Day 2023.It is a Day that has been set aside to create awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms relating to the privacy of citizens in the data processing ecosystem.
In line with the overarching global objective of awareness
on data privacy, the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), will be organising
a National Privacy Week, which is a week of intensive focus on awareness
creation in the area of data subjects’ rights, capacity building on data
governance, data breach remediation among others.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof.
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, will flag-off the National Privacy Week with a press
conference on the Global Data Privacy Day. The National Privacy Week also
coincides with the one year anniversary of the establishment of the Bureau.
The NDPB under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Olatunji as its
National Commission and CEO will set-up an Accelerated Data Breach Remediation
unit to resolve petitions from data subjects within the National Privacy Week.
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