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VOL. 7, ISSUE 3 (2025)
Data processing principles and the rights of data subjects under the Nigeria data protection act 2023
Authors
George RC Ibekwe, Thomas O Okaba, Chukwu Arthur Elvis
Abstract
The world has become a global and
technological village where personal data processing, storage and retrieval
have become a very important and inevitable aspect of administrative and
economic activities for both public and private organizations. This has
impelled governments across the world, including Nigeria, to enact laws to
protect natural persons whose personal data are collected, processed, stored
and or retrieved. The laws establish certain rights for the data subjects and
set out some basic data processing principles. The rights of data subjects
relate to those entitlements or claims which the law sets out for the benefit
of data subjects, which if breach constitutes an infringement on the data
subjects’ rights and entitles the data subject to remedies. While Data
processing principles relates to the basic rules and doctrine which govern the
processing of personal data of data subjects. Nigeria was lethargic in enacting
her substantive law on data protection unlike her global counterparts and this
was largely due to her lack of political will. However, after decades of
consistent agitations and efforts by stakeholders, the Nigeria Data Protection
Act was finally enacted in 2023. This article examined data processing
principles and the rights of data subjects set out in the Data Protection Act
2023. It also discussed the measures to safeguard personal data. It recommends
among others, that there should be a comprehensive and diligent implementation
of the laudable rights of data subjects under the Act, and that Data
controllers and processors should establish adequate data security measures to
ensure that the rights of data subjects as enshrined in the Act are preserved
and not infringed upon.
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Pages:128-132
How to cite this article:
George RC Ibekwe, Thomas O Okaba, Chukwu Arthur Elvis "Data processing principles and the rights of data subjects under the Nigeria data protection act 2023". International Journal of Law, Policy and Social Review, Vol 7, Issue 3, 2025, Pages 128-132
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