Four years after the adoption of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDPA) was passed into law in June 2023. This article reviews the main changes brought by the NDPA in...more
Africa is continuing to strengthen its data protection legal and regulatory framework. To date, thirty six out of fifty four African countries have data protection laws and/or regulations. Sixteen countries have signed the...more
L'Afrique continue de renforcer son cadre juridique et réglementaire en matière de protection des données. À ce jour, trente-six des cinquante-quatre Etats africains disposent de lois et/ou de règlements sur la protection des...more
Over the past ten years, African countries have steadily passed laws and adopted regulations on cybersecurity, cybercrime, electronic transactions and data protection. To date, 33 countries have data protection laws and/or...more
2/1/2022
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Privacy Laws
On 13 October 2021, almost two years after the adoption of a bill on data protection, Rwanda's first data protection legislation, Law No. 058/2021 Relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy ("Data Protection Law"...more
11/23/2021
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Data Privacy ,
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Data Protection ,
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International Data Transfers ,
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Rwanda