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Nigeria’s banks, fintechs and payment companies face a January 2027 deadline to keep payment transaction data in Nigeria. The difficult part is not simply finding local servers, but migrating the right workloads without weakening reliability.
A factory reset can remove your personal data from a phone, but doing it too early can also remove the easiest route to your WhatsApp history, authenticator codes, banking access, eSIM and other accounts. Here is the order to follow before handing a phone to someone else.
NINAuth is designed to make identity verification depend on a person approving a specific data request instead of routinely handing organisations a raw NIN. TechView Africa reviewed NIMC’s own documentation to see what organisations can request, what consent covers and what remains in the audit trail.
UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with readable tables in a scan of roughly 300,000 domains. It was not a Supabase breach, but it shows what can happen when software is shipped faster than its permissions are understood.
A Lagos court rejected Truecaller’s argument that one user’s permission could establish consent for non-users whose numbers appear in that user’s contacts. But the applicants still failed to prove a privacy infringement that entitled them to damages.
Deleting an app does not delete your account. We checked how 20 popular services handle account deletion and found waiting periods, subscription hurdles and data-retention rules that users often overlook.
We compared six African data-protection laws to see when consumers must be told about a breach and where they can complain.
That free VPN may cost nothing to download, but activating it can route much of your phone's internet traffic through the provider's servers. Understanding what the app can see and collect is more important than simply checking whether it has millions of downloads.
A breach alert means information connected to your email was found in compromised data, but the right response depends on what actually leaked and whether any exposed credentials remain in use.
Scammers can place fake customer-support numbers in search results and advertisements, hoping worried customers will call them first. A quick verification step can prevent the call from becoming a much bigger problem.
Suddenly losing mobile service may be more serious than a network problem. SIM-swap fraud can redirect calls and security codes to another SIM while your original phone remains with you.
AI tools make it incredibly easy to upload documents and ask questions but convenience can create serious privacy mistakes. Here are seven types of information you should think twice about sharing with any AI service.
