Safety, security, accuracy, reliability and confidentiality of personal information remain at the top of the priority list of African countries working on improving their data governance frameworks.

All data related to an identified or (directly or indirectly) identifiable person are personal data. In other words, they are much more than just a name, personal identity code or contact information.

Our current approach to data protection is now more than half a century old. The first country to seriously address the issue of protecting digital personal data was the United States of America. In a ...

According to a May 2024 Gartner, Inc. study (subscription required), data breaches in application programming interfaces (APIs) are on the rise. As the volume of shared data across organizational ...

The much awaited Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) was on the Order Paper at the National Assembly for first reading yesterday. We protect what is valuable. And the more something is valuable, the ...

The Data Protection Bill, 2025 (the ‘Bill’) represents a transformative step in Ghana’s data governance landscape. Replacing the 2012 Act, it introduces stricter privacy protections, broader ...

The U.S. Securities and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) on Thursday introduced a set of principles to help protect clients when they provide access to their data. SIFMA’s “data aggregation ...