According to the Guardian, a report of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has shown that the UK’s Department for Education (DfE) broke the law in its mishandling of the national database containing details of every school pupil in England. After complaints from civil society groups including Liberty, the ICO found that the DfE had [...]

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) published the Kenya Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment which was developed using the Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) of the USAID’s Digital Strategy. The tool looks at how Kenya’s digital ecosystem can be improved to establish a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment for pursuing development objectives and [...]

In August, noyb, a European civil society group, filed 101 complaints against several companies based in Europe for failing to comply with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgement of 16 July 2020. This judgement deems data transfers to Google and Facebook in the US under the Privacy Shield illegal because Google [...]

According to TechCrunch, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has published a new body of evidence to support its two-years legal complaint against  the unlawful exploitation of personal data via the programmatic advertising Real-Time Bidding (RTB) process. In a submission directed to the Irish data protection commission (DPC), ICCL argues the RTB process is [...]

The seventh South-East Europe Media Conference entitled ‘The New Frontline: Working together to Foster Media Freedom’ took place online. It was organized by the office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (FRoM) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, in cooperation with other OSCE field operations in South-East Europe (SEE). Journalists, media experts, [...]

The Nigeria Identity Management Commission (NIMC) estimates that it will take three to five years to register all Nigerians in its national digital ID programme. Among activities to be undertaken during this time are registration of citizens and residents, harmonisation of state and federal databases, and verification and cleaning up of data. Digital identity stakeholders [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has joined a coalition of 100 global civil society groups to submit comments on Nigeria’s draft data protection bill, which is undergoing a public consultation process. The submission said that the bill should “protect those fulfilling their duty as journalists” from censorship under the law, and “define ‘data’ in [...]

According to the European civil society group noyb, the Irish High Court has allowed Facebook to file a judicial review against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and a new ‘ex officio’ procedure by the DPC into EU-USA data flows. In doing so, Facebook has succeeded in stopping the DPC's investigation into EU-USA data flows [...]

In a joint statement, Transparency International and Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI Z) have expressed deep concerns over attempts by theZimbabwean government to fast-track the Cyber Cecurity and Data Protection Bill. According to the civil society groups, although the bill appears to be progressive in strengthening data protection, it contains provisions that undermine the freedom of [...]

Speaking at the international conference ‘Seizing Digital Opportunities for Cooperation and Development’, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the Global Initiative on Data Security. In the context of a 'new development of international division of labor', the initiative emphasises the importance of maintaining the supply-chain security of ICT products and services as [...]