The world is always in a reformative, renewal or rediscovery
process and over time, human experience has shown that the only
constant is change. From the earliest days of subsistence living
(nil trading), trade by barter, and cash based trading, the world
has progressed to significantly transacting online in the digital
economy. The technologies of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are the forces driving this
economy and almost every country, including Nigeria is striving not
to be left behind. The quest for a digital economy means more
Personal Data (PD) will be processed; and this has privacy
implications.
In a bid to curtail the 'negative' implications, various
countries enacted regulations guiding the collection and processing
of individuals' data. Following suit, Nigeria enacted the
Nigerian Data Protection Regulation 2019
(NDPR) to guide PD of
Data Subjects (DS). The concept of PD is a bit complicated, as
determining what
