DataLaws Nigeria Limited, has unveiled a new breed data protection and privacy consultancy to provide consultancy advice, training and capacity building in the areas of data protection and privacy.
According to the company, the consultancy comprises a specialist data protection, data privacy and information security law team that advises on complex data protection, privacy and information compliance and governance issues.
F. Franklin Akinsuyi , CEO and course director DataLaws, said that “Our aim is to be Africa’s leading Privacy and Data Protection consultancy, building enduring relationships to ensure that companies instinctively turn to us as the “GO TO” consultancy for support on their most important and challenging Privacy and Data Protection assignments”
His team has a proven track record of advising on complex, multi-jurisdictional privacy and information technology projects, this allows combined specialist knowledge to benchmark clients against current market standards and to assess what constitutes an acceptable level of risk.
According to Akinsuyi , every organisation is at risk to data protection, privacy and information security issues.
“DataLaws has been established in Nigeria to raise awareness of the need for Nigeria to implementregimes to protect its citizens data as well as assisting in providing adviceon how Nigeria can achieve new revenue streams by establishing frameworks for participating in the lucrative outsourcing industry.
DataLaws knows that It is time for Nigeria to tap into this opportunity by getting its foundations right this includes implementing an appropriate Data Protection and Privacy regime from the ground up. This will involve training the up and coming generation on the need to protect their personal information” he added.
He said that his company sees the need for implementing Data Protection andPrivacy legislations as an important stake in the ground to achieve this aim. Data protection and privacy legislations are as important as cybercrime legislations and both work in parallel to reduce cybercrime activity by setting out ground rules for engagement.
Akinsuyi , strongly believes from his experience in providing advice to global organisations who have had to prepare their environments to current and more stringent upcoming data protection and privacy legislations that Nigerians needs to understand the impact of outsourcing Nigerian citizens data outside of the country.
Technologies such as Big Data, Outsourcing and Cloud Computing can have serious and devastating negative effects that can compromise Nigeria’s National Security if not managed correctly.
He said that now that it has been identified that the United States through operation “PRISM” have been spying on countries across the globe, many countries are reacting by putting up barriers to ensure their citizens data is protected not only by implementing appropriate data protection and privacy legislations but also by restricting data to countries that do not have similar legislative safeguards.
This includes asking that cloud computing agreements include clauses that prevent transfer of personal information to organisations that are compelled to hand over information to the United States.