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The Barbados Banking Association is assuring Barbadian customers that their information is safe after several reports of security breaches associated with bank cards. This breach is said to have occurred within a “very small percentage of the customers of local banks” and the institutions  have already responded to those affected. “Whether a breach is as a result of unauthorised access to a local bank’s systems or occurs when their clients …

Numerous countries in Africa have developed or implemented data privacy and security laws in their countries in the last few years. With the rapid rise in digitisation as a result of the pandemic, the broad implementation of such laws across the continent has never been more urgent. Countries including Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been implementing new measures to protect and secure the personal information of their citizens. In Ghana, data protection is regulated under the Data Protection Act, 2012 (DPA) together with Artic...

On 13 April 2022, Presidential Decree No. 26 of 27 January 2022, which contains the regulation on the objections register, will come into force. The…

More than 250 institutions are likely to face prosecution for defaulting in the registration and payment of prescribed fees to the Data Protection Commission. The institutions owed the Commission GH¢ 1.5 million after collecting and personally processing information of individuals as data controllers over the years. Madam Patricia Adusei-Poku, the…

The Data Protection Commission has paid a visit to the Director of Public Prosecution Mrs Yvonne Atakora - Obuobisa, to begin a legal process to retrieve some 1.5 million Ghana cedis from 251 Data Controllers who have flouted the Data Protection Act 2012 (Act843) by refusing to register with the…