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By: Chukwuyere Ebere Izuogu LLM (Hannover), CIPP/E On Tuesday 17 January 2023, the Biometric Data Security and Data Protection Bill (SB. 1095) was read for the 1st time at the Senate of the National Assembly. It would be recalled that the earlier Data Protection Bill 2019 (HB. 504) and Data Protecti...

By: Seun Lari-Williams Netflix has become a household name in Nigeria, with the platform having an increasing number of subscribers from the country. Globally, it is synonymous with on-demand streaming; hitting massive records with movies and TV shows like House of Cards, Breaking Bad, Squid Game a...

By: Seun Lari-Williams In recent years, domain names have become valuable intellectual property assets. In the fourth quarter of 2021, it was reported that Nigeria had over 140 million active internet users,[1] with top-level domain registrations increasingly becoming important to trading. And as y...

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...