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Gbeminiyi Ogunleye
2 weeks ago
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PIN Insists on Data Protection, Explains Role in Seeking Legal Action against NIMC
Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a pan-African organisation and thought leader in digital rights and inclusion space, has stressed the need for government agencies that are in possession of the data of Nigerian citizens to protect such data in order to avoid breach and undue expose of same.
Worried that the data of Nigerian citizens may have been stolen from the database of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), PIN accused NIMC of improper protection of such data, and has gone to an Abuja High Court to challenge NIMC for negligence over citizens’ data kept in its custody.
Executive Director at PIN, Mr. Gbenga Sesan, who revealed this at a media briefing in Lagos to spotlight key digital rights and inclusion issues on the African continent, said PIN also joined in the lawsuit, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Interbank Settlement Systems (NIBSS), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), and the Attorney General of the Federation.
According to him, “The reason we’ve joined all of them in the lawsuit is because they all have questions to answer in the matter.”
Credit: Thisdaylive