Data privacy law in Africa: Emerging perspectives
Data privacy law in Africa: Emerging perspectives

Author: Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf

Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Data privacy law in Africa: Emerging perspectives delves into the profound impact of data privacy on individuals, businesses, and governments across the continent. Experts from diverse African nations provide a comprehensive view of the evolving regulatory frameworks guiding data privacy, exploring its legal, social, economic, and cultural implications. Examining emerging contexts such as Artificial Intelligence, vulnerable groups, and the challenges presented by COVID-19, the book sheds light on the present and envisions future trajectories in data governance. A valuable resource for those navigating the intricate intersection of law and technology in Africa, offering innovative solutions and best practices for enhanced data privacy.

African Data Privacy Laws
African Data Privacy Laws

Author: Alex B. Makulilo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 3319473174

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This volume presents analyses of data protection systems and of 26 jurisdictions with data protection legislation in Africa, as well as additional selected countries without comprehensive data protection laws. In addition, it covers all sub-regional and regional data privacy policies in Africa. Apart from analysing data protection law, the book focuses on the socio-economic contexts, political settings and legal culture in which such laws developed and operate. It bases its analyses on the African legal culture and comparative international data privacy law. In Africa protection of personal data, the central preoccupation of data privacy laws, is on the policy agenda. The recently adopted African Union Cyber Security and Data Protection Convention 2014, which is the first and currently the only single treaty across the globe to address data protection outside Europe, serves as an illustration of such interest. In addition, there are data protection frameworks at sub-regional levels for West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. Similarly, laws on protection of personal data are increasingly being adopted at national plane. Yet despite these data privacy law reforms there is very little literature about data privacy law in Africa and its recent developments. This book fills that gap.

Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

Author: Tan, Joseph

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 1522554610

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Over the decades, the fields of health information systems and informatics have seen rapid growth. Such integrative efforts within the two disciplines have resulted in emerging innovations within the realm of medicine and healthcare. The Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics provides emerging research on the innovative practices of information systems and informatic software in providing efficient, safe, and impactful healthcare systems. While highlighting topics such as conceptual modeling, surveillance data, and decision support systems, this handbook explores the applications and advancements in technological adoption and application of information technology in health institutions. This publication is a vital resource for hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, researchers, and practitioners seeking current research on health information systems in the digital era.

The Right to be Forgotten
The Right to be Forgotten

Author: Paul Lambert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1526521954

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Longlisted for the 2022 Inner Temple Main Book Prize The Right to be Forgotten is one of the most publicised areas of the GDPR and has received massive worldwide publicity following judicial and legal developments in Europe. Individual data regulators have increased powers and importance in dealing with RtbF rights for individuals, and it is more important than ever for them to be up to date. The new, second edition, is fully updated to include: - the increasing importance of the role of RtbF in relation to media content (newspapers and television media in particular). - the evolving jurisprudence in terms of RtbF generally, especially in light of increased understanding of the GDPR RtbF and the landmark Google Spain RtbF case. - the recent Google France case. - the potential for group actions, class actions, and litigation funding, in relation to RtbF issues This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.

Human Trafficking in Africa
Human Trafficking in Africa

Author: Alecia Dionne Hoffman

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3030821633

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This edited volume examines the contemporary practice of human trafficking on the African continent. It investigates the scourge of human trafficking in Africa from the broader international and regional perspectives as well as from a country-specific context. Written by a multi-disciplinary panel of academics and practitioners, the book is divided into three sections that highlight a wide range of issues. Section One examines the theoretical and legal challenges of trafficking. Section Two focuses on the regional and nation-state perspectives of human trafficking along with selected cases of trafficking. Section Three highlights the impact of trafficking on youth, with specific attention given to child soldiering and female victims of trafficking. Providing a multi-faceted approach to a problem that crosses multiple disciplines, this volume will be useful to scholars and students interested in African politics, African studies, migration, human rights, sociology, law, and economics as well as members of the diplomatic corps, governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations.

Data Protection, Privacy Regulators and Supervisory Authorities
Data Protection, Privacy Regulators and Supervisory Authorities

Author: Paul Lambert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1526514222

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Data Protection, Privacy Regulators and Supervisory Authorities explores and details the establishment, rules, and powers of data protection regulators and supervisory authorities. It also discusses rights issues (pursuing and defending) as well as the developing area of fines and contestability. Data protection and privacy are arguably the most significant developing areas of law and policy. New regulations span from the GDPR (EU) to the CCPA (California), and other new rules internationally. How the new data protection rules operate on a day-to-day basis is linked to the activities, functions and orders of data protection regulators and supervisory authorities. This brand new title includes coverage of: - The establishment and wider powers of the new data regulators - The new sanctions, orders, penalties and powers to enforce compliance - The new obligations to contact data regulators even before data collections - The detailed GDPR and DPA powers and requirements - Recent fines, penalties and case law including CJEU This book is essential for any entity dealing with the new data protection and privacy issues as no company, organisation nor their internal or external advisors, can ignore these new regulators, nor fully understand the new data protection and privacy compliance landscape without a detailed appreciation of these regulators.

Group Privacy
Group Privacy

Author: Linnet Taylor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 3319466089

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The goal of the book is to present the latest research on the new challenges of data technologies. It will offer an overview of the social, ethical and legal problems posed by group profiling, big data and predictive analysis and of the different approaches and methods that can be used to address them. In doing so, it will help the reader to gain a better grasp of the ethical and legal conundrums posed by group profiling. The volume first maps the current and emerging uses of new data technologies and clarifies the promises and dangers of group profiling in real life situations. It then balances this with an analysis of how far the current legal paradigm grants group rights to privacy and data protection, and discusses possible routes to addressing these problems. Finally, an afterword gathers the conclusions reached by the different authors and discuss future perspectives on regulating new data technologies.

Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law
Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law

Author: Normann Witzleb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1139916750

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This collection of essays explores current developments in privacy law, including reform of data protection laws, privacy and the media, social control and surveillance, privacy and the Internet, and privacy and the courts. It places these developments into a broader international context, with a particular focus on the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Adopting a comparative approach, it creates an important resource for understanding international trends in the reform of privacy and data protection laws across a variety of contexts. Written by internationally recognised experts, Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives provides an accessible introduction to contemporary legal and policy debates in privacy and data protection law. It is essential reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in current challenges facing privacy and data protection law in Europe and in the common law world.

Asian Data Privacy Laws
Asian Data Privacy Laws

Author: Graham Greenleaf

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0191669156

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The first work to examine data privacy laws across Asia, covering all 26 countries and separate jurisdictions, and with in-depth analysis of the 14 which have specialised data privacy laws. Professor Greenleaf demonstrates the increasing world-wide significance of data privacy and the international context of the development of national data privacy laws as well as assessing the laws, their powers and their enforcement against international standards. The book also contains a web link to an update to mid-2017.