{"id":7905,"date":"2023-12-20T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndpc-issues-code-of-conduct-for-data-protection-organisations\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:02:08","slug":"ndpc-issues-code-of-conduct-for-data-protection-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndpc-issues-code-of-conduct-for-data-protection-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"NDPC issues code of conduct for data protection organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigeria Data Protection Commission, NDPC, on Wednesday, issued a Code of Conduct for Data Protection Compliance Organisations, DPCOs, to ensure professionalism in data protection.<\/p>\n<p>The NDPC issued the code at a virtual event organised in Abuja, ahead of its scheduled enforcement in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr Vincent Olatunji, charged DPCOs to see their roles in the implementation of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, NDPA, as a public trust which must be guarded with extreme sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the opportunity presented by the Act included the lawful use of data and job creation in the data processing value chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NDPA 2023, under section 33 mandates the commission to license persons having a requisite level of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe licensing is in line with data protection and the Act, to monitor, audit and report on compliance by data controllers and data processors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique Public Private Partnership model which is designed to promote trust and confidence in Nigeria\u2019s digital economy, which like other economies around the world, thrives on data processing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Olatunji noted that the DPCOs had the role of creating awareness and engaging in capacity building and registration of data controllers with the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>NDPC issues code of conduct for data protection organisations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Data Protection Commission, NDPC, on Wednesday, issued a Code of Conduct for Data Protection Compliance Organisations, DPCOs, to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4412,15],"tags":[4413,180],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndpc","category-news","tag-ndpc","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}