{"title":"Nigeria’s data protection legal and institutional model: an overview","authors":"Olumide Babalola","doi":"10.1093/idpl/ipab023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipab023","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Key Points<ul><li>In the past two decades, the unprecedented incursion of technology into the economic and socio-cultural activities in Nigeria increasingly posed many unanswered questions on data protection and privacy. Consequently, this led to the country’s numerous attempts to enact a principal data protection legislation in addition to the existing sectoral laws on the subject.</li><li>Despite its ratification of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Supplementary Act on data protection in 2010, Nigeria carried on without a general data protection legislation until nine years later when the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in a face-saving regulatory move, issued the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) as Nigeria’s first all-encompassing and comprehensive, albeit subsidiary legislation on data protection.</li><li>This article provides an analytical synopsis of Nigeria’s current legal framework on data protection touching its brief history, the general and sectoral enactments on data protection, the enforcement mechanism created under the NDPR as well as the Implementation Framework issued in the mould of guidance notes.</li></ul></div></span>","PeriodicalId":51749,"journal":{"name":"International Data Privacy Law","volume":" 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is that your final decision? Multi-stage profiling, selective effects, and Article 22 of the GDPR","authors":"Binns R, Veale M.","doi":"10.1093/idpl/ipab020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipab020","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)EP/S035362/1Digital Charter Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute and Department for Digital</span>","PeriodicalId":51749,"journal":{"name":"International Data Privacy Law","volume":" 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On (some aspects of) social privacy in the social media space","authors":"Adrian Kuenzler","doi":"10.1093/idpl/ipab022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipab022","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Key Points<ul><li>This commentary ties in with an emerging field in privacy scholarship that focuses on collective rather than individualistic viewpoints: recent debates address privacy in digital markets in terms of individual rights to choose between different options, such as between Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter, while users of digital platforms try to make sense of who they are and how they fit into networked contexts.</li><li>In such contexts, audiences are hidden and almost anything that users share is in plain view. Privacy is thus to be found within public environments rather than in opposition to them—that is, by controlling access to meaning rather than by controlling access to content.</li><li>While legal scholarship is mostly built around the assumption that consumers have to choose to be private or to be public, in digital markets, privacy and publicity are inevitably muddled.</li><li>Drawing on the German Federal Court of Justice’s recent <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Facebook</span> decision, the commentary observes that reclaiming privacy in digital markets depends not just on selecting between different options but also on being able to make choices in relation to them.</li></ul></div></span>","PeriodicalId":51749,"journal":{"name":"International Data Privacy Law","volume":" 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138492556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}