Privacy Policy, Data Protection, and Inter-Jurisdictional Enforcement of Data rights; Meeting the Realities of the New Normal (Part 2). By Stanley O. Omotor and Alphayo Ongeri Wycliffe
Generally, the right to privacy has attained a universal status, and countries have enacted various laws to regulate the collection and use of personal data, popular amongst which is the European General Data Protection Regulation 2018. In this part (“part 2”) of this Article series, we will undertake a comparative analysis of the rights of data subjects under the Nigerian and Kenyan legal systems. In part 3 of these Article series, consideration will be on the inter-jurisdiction enforcement of these data rights.
Privacy Policy, Data Protection and Inter-jurisdictional enforcement of Data rights; Meeting the Realities of the New Normal By Stanley O. Omotor
Privacy policies are policies which are intended to educate internet users and regulate how digital information is collected, why they are collected, and how they are managed. Organizations with digital platforms are required to have privacy policies to regulate the collection and use digital information, especially personal data.
To aid a realistic analysis of the topic, we will be analyzing the provisions of Google Privacy Policy (“GPP”) . The preference of the GPP for analysis, rather than any other privacy policy, is informed by the reason that Google is one of the most populous digital service provider globally as almost all internet and phone users interact with one form, or the other, of the digital services provided by Google. Popular Google applications (“apps”) and platforms include Google search, YouTube, G-mail, Chrome browser, Google Play Store, Google Map and the Android operating system. For instance, the Android operating system is reputed to be the largest installed base of any operating system worldwide controlling the global operating system market with a 74.13% share.
