Key questions this article answers:
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The President recently assented to the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA). What does this mean for data privacy and protection in Nigeria?
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How does the NDPA differ from existing digital privacy and protection frameworks, and what does this mean for organisations and individuals that handle personal data in Nigeria?
Our online activities generate vast data volumes. Every moment we spend interacting, exchanging messages, searching for information, or looking for love translates into data on the platforms, websites and apps we use.
A case in point is WhatsApp; users exchange 100 billion messages daily. That’s almost 1.2 million messages each second. Two billion monthly active users will get you this information magnitude. At the same time, this example gives us a good sense of the massive scale of data we create as we live and work in the digital economy.
Digital platforms, apps, websites and computing
