Information Protection Bill ‘Il guarantee assurance for all web users in Nigeria-NITDA

Information Protection Bill ‘Il guarantee assurance for all web users in Nigeria-NITDA

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says the proposed Data Protection Bill 2020, would give assurance to all web clients in Nigeria when gone into law.

NITDA Director-General, Mr Kashifu Inuwa, said this on Thursday at an online workshop sorted out by the office for Data Protection Officers (DPOs) and Focal Persons in Abuja.

The workshop had in conversation summation of the Bill, its suggestions for associations and understanding the function of DPOs.

Spoken to by Dr Vincent Olatunji, NITDA Director, e-Government Development and Regulation, Inuwa reviewed that Nigeria Data Protection Regulation(NDPR) was shaped on Jan. 25,2019 to guarantee that information of residents were ensured just as lift ICT economy.

He said the workshop was sorted out as a component of the organization’s key commitment to develop the usage of the NDPR and the proposed Data Protection Bill.

He likewise said that information assurance was important for the guideline mainstay of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), which would encourage new financial worldview for inventive and persevering Nigerians.

“The DPOs are the genuine harbingers of information security consistence, a DPO ought to be free and report legitimately to the suitable administration level of the association so as to guarantee compelling administration of protection chances.

“The DPOs ought to be engaged with the administration of all issues which identify with the handling of individual information; be master in information assurance enactment, guideline and practice; go about as a contact point for the administrative position.

“They are likewise burdened with the duty to consistently advise the association’s administration and workers regarding their commitments as identifies with individual information and give counsel in regard of protection sway evaluations directed by their association,” he said.

Inuwa encouraged members at the workshop to set up their associations towards outright information assurance and improve consistence to data security.

Mr Franklin Akinsuyi, a Data Protection master said DPOs were intended to advance information assurance, security and guarantee sway evaluation among other information related issues.

As per Akinsuyi, Nigeria, contrasted with some different nations is flourishing with information insurance approaches and that need maintainability.