CSOs Move Against Digital Rights Violations In Nigeria

Civil society organisations on safeguarding digital rights have intensified campaigns against the growing threats to digital rights of Nigerians.

At a roundtable consultative session hosted by World Impact Development Foundation in Abuja, the participants harped on two topical issues including the “UN Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms” and “Ensuring Human Rights in the Digital Era: Review of Legal Policy Frameworks on Digital Rights, Internet Governance, Government Oversight and the implications of these practices for Digital and civil Liberties in the Evolving Digital Landscape.”

The foundation executive director and convener of the roundtable session, Kinsley Godwin, bemoaned the alarming rate of violations of the digital rights of Nigerians.

Godwin said government agencies under the cover of protecting national security breach the digital rights of Nigerians, adding that Nigerian security agencies sometimes, under the guise of national security, breach the online or cyber privacy of Nigerian citizens.

“What we are saying is we need to look at the laws, where they need to be amended … and how to engage the various stakeholders in the Nigeria Data protection, the regulatory agencies like the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC and others responsible for the protection of the data of Nigerians,” he said.