Keeping Up With The Realities And Dynamics Of Data Protection: The Nigerian Experience

INTRODUCTION

No other time is more apt to espouse the question of how Nigeria has fared so far in keeping up with the dynamics of data protection other than now, when digitisation has become an inevitable reality world over. The changing dynamics of digitization is moving at a fast-paced level such that countries of the world have had to fasten their seatbelts and be in top gear to be able to keep up with the trends and pace with which digitization is moving.

With the internet, the world is indeed at our fingertips. Hence, the virtual world feeds largely on the personal data of individuals (i.e names, birth details, address, pictures, email address, bank details, or medical information) which are available online to work. The principle of data protection seeks to protect these data which reveals sensitive personal information from being indiscriminately exploited to harm users and data subjects in the bid for economic gain or other related purposes.