Data misuse threatens sovereignty, public trust -NJI, NDPC

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Justice Babatunde Adejumo, has cautioned that data, though a valuable resource, is increasingly exploited by illicit actors in ways that threaten national sovereignty and erode public confidence in government institutions.
Justice Adejumo spoke in Abuja at the opening of a capacity-building workshop on data protection for judicial officers, organised by the NJI in collaboration with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) at the Mohammed Bello Centre of the Institute.
He said the world had come to accept data protection and privacy as matters of paramount national concern, given their far-reachin...