The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, will flag-off the National Privacy Week on Saturday, 28 January.
This will be done as part of activities marking this year’s Global Data Privacy Day 2023.
The Global Privacy Day is a day set aside to create awareness for fundamental rights and freedoms relating to the privacy of citizens in the data processing ecosystem.
According to a press release by the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), the exercise is in conformity with the overarching global objective of creating awareness for data privacy.
NDPB said the National Privacy Week will be 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.
Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami formerly flag-off the 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.
The NDPB under the leadership of Dr. Vincent Olatunji as its National Commission and CEO will set up an Accelerated Data Breach Remediation unit to resolve petitions from data subjects within the National Privacy Week”, the statement said.
