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By Timi Olagunju On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, at the Federal High Court, FCT, Abuja, the Nigerian Government through The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) sued Meta [Facebook and its local agent] for N30,000,000,000.00 [Thirty Billion Naira] (approximately $69,461,640.00). The govern...

By : Seun Lari-Williams Nigeria’s advertising and marketing industry, concerning which there has long been an outcry of over-regulation, has now been burdened with even more regulations.[1] The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria Act No. 23 of 2022, which establishes the Advertising Regulato...

By : Chukwuyere Ebere Izuogu On 6 April 2022, Bet9ja a sports-betting platform suffered a cyber-attack that rendered the platform inaccessible to users. As a result of this, users were unable to access their accounts and/or place bets on the platform. The inability of users to access their personal ...

By : Chukwuyere Ebere Izuogu On 25 May 2022, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report (the report) wherein it conducted both a technical and policy analysis to show that 164 EdTech products used in 49 countries including in Nigeria appeared to engage in data collection practices that risked or...

By : Tojola Yusuf, CIPP/E The implementation or maintenance of a client’s privacy and data protection program cannot be achieved without communicating effectively with the staff or management of the client. Communication during meetings, awareness or training sessions, risk assessment, inciden...

By: Seun Lari-Williams  Former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Burger once said “that the notion that ordinary people want black-robed Judges and well-dressed lawyers and fine Courtrooms as settings to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people...

By : SAMUEL C. UZOIGWE (ESQ.) Abstract The proliferation of technology in the 21st century was pervaded by an astounding intrusion of technology in the everyday activities of humans, as evident in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, mobile communication, and biometric technology, among ...

By: Samuel Ngwu, CIPP/E The enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) 2019 drastically changed the Data Protection and Privacy landscape in Nigeria and all over the world. The regulator has been exerting efforts on institutions and ...

By :  Adeyemi O. Owoade Several times many worry on what happen to the data the companies with no website or online presence collect. Many even conclude that the data protection regulations are not necessary or not applicable to them. This may sound interesting as most data protection laws never st...

By : Samuel Ngwu, Esq The issuance of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) 2019 changed the landscape of data protection in Nigeria with a lot of innovations, one of which is the introduction of the concept of the Data Protection Officer (DPO).  Understandably, a lot of controversies trail...