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NDPB unveils Data Breach Remediation unit, commemorates Global Data Privacy Day 

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Nigeria Data Protection Bureau logo. Photo credit: Nigeria Data Protection Bureau website.
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By Chioma Obinagwam

Nigeria will on Saturday 28th of January 2023 join the international community to observe Global Data Privacy Day 2023.

Confiance News gathered from a statement signed by the Head, Legal Enforcement and Regulations, Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Babatunde Bamiboye on Wednesday.

“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 NDPB will be organizing 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,” he explained.

Nigeria Data Protection Bureau logo. Photo credit: Nigeria Data Protection Bureau website.

Confiance News further gathered that the Hon. 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,” he continued.

The NDPB under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Olatunji as its National Commission and CEO, Confiance News gathered, will set-up an Accelerated Data Breach Remediation unit to resolve petitions from data subjects within the National Privacy Week.

 

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