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Private Credit Information Bureaus: APD carries out a 5-day study visit in Europe

The Angolan Data Protection Agency “mostly known as APD” is the regulatory authority of the Private Credit Information Bureaus in Angola. The Private Credit Information Bureaus (CPIC) are an extensive database, which will include all relevant payment history of Angolan consumers, with the main objective of analyzing consumption habits and, consequently, improving decisions in granting credit.

 

Compte rendu du voyage d’étude de la délégation de la Commission de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CIL) du Burkina Faso au Niger

Du dimanche 11 au jeudi 15 septembre 2022, une délégation de la Commission de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CIL) du Burkina Faso, conduite par sa Présidente Madame OUEDRAOGO MARGUERITE BONANE, a séjourné à Niamey. 

 

Voyage d'étude

 

News of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR)

 

1.    Establishment of the Bureau

In due cognizance of the emerging international norm in respect of safeguarding the rights of data subjects to privacy as well as strengthening data sovereignty through adequate Data Protection framework, the President and Commander-in-Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR approved the creation of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau on the on 4th Of February 2022. 

 

APD brings together financial and non-financial institutions around the topic "Operationalization of Credit Information Bureaus in Angola"

The Private Credit Information Bureaus are based on the sharing of personal data of financial nature, and therefore, in the context of Angola, their supervision is carried out by the Data Protection Agency (APD in Portuguese). In accordance with its role as regulator, APD brought together financial and non-financial institutions around the topic "Operationalization of the Private Credit Information Bureaus in Angola", with a view not only to explain the technical ways of collecting and systematizing information on deferred payments of a diverse set of users who enjoy goods and services on credit, but also to provide information on how this sharing should occur in the light of the Personal Data Protection Law (LPDP in Portuguese).

INFORMATION REGULATOR (SOUTH AFRICA) ESTABLISHES ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE

The Information Regulator (South Africa) has reached yet another milestone with the establishment of its Enforcement Committee. The Enforcement Committee is established in terms of Section 50 of the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and will be chaired by Adv Helen Fourie SC, and Ms Simonè Margadie will serve as the alternative chairperson. Adv Helen Fourie SC is a member of the Pretoria Society of Advocates and has served as an acting judge in the North Gauteng High Court.  Her Senior Counsel status was conferred by the President of South Africa in 2018. The focus of Adv. Fourie’s practice is providing advice and conducting litigation in matters concerning various aspects of insolvency law, corporate law, contractual disputes, National Credit Act, wills and estates and trusts, interdicts, and evictions.