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ARTICLE · 31 MARCH 2022

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The Principles Of Data Privacy And Data Protection In Nigeria

Data protection is commonly defined as the law designed to protect your personal data. Data protection is the legal mechanism that ensures privacy.

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INTRODUCTION

Data protection is commonly defined as the law designed to protect your personal data. Data protection is the legal mechanism that ensures privacy. While conceptually distinct from the 'right to privacy', most good data protection regulatory frameworks are similar in the sense that they contain similar principles for collecting, processing, and transferring personal data.

For over two centuries, Oil has been considered one of the most valuable physical assets in the world. However, in this age of information, Data is gradually and steadily becoming the most priced asset. According to Shivon Zilis, a partner with the venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta, "Data is the new oil." David Kenny, the general manager of IBM's (IBM) Watson data crunching service, agreed with Zilis and said "the value of data goes up every day AI (Artificial Intelligence) advances." He also explained that only 20% of the world's information is stored on the Internet, with the

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