Makulilo African Data Privacy Laws

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-47317-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 379 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makulilo, Alex B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Overview1. The Context of Data Privacy in AfricaAlex B. Makulilo
Part II National Data Privacy Laws2. Data Protection in North Africa,Tunisia and MoroccoAlex B. Makulilo
3. Information Privacy in NigeriaIheanyi Samuel Nwankwo
4. Data Protection Law in Burkina FasoKrissiamba Moumouni Ouiminga
5. Data Protection in ZimbabweCaroline Ncube
6. Privacy and Data Protection in UgandaRonald Kakungulu-Mayambala
7. Towards Data Protection Law in EthiopiaAlebachew Birhanu Enyew
8. Data Privacy Law Reforms in TanzaniaPatricia Boshe
9. Data Protection Law in South AfricaAnneliese Roos
10. The Right to Privacy and Data Protection in GhanaDominic N. Dagbanja
11. Data Protection in Cape Verde: An Analysis of the State of the ArtJoão Luís Traça Pedro and Marques Gaspar
12. Protection of Personal Data in SenegalPatricia Boshe
13. Data Protection of the Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius, Seychelles, MadagascarAlex B. Makulilo
14. Data Protection Regulation in BurundiPatricia Boshe
15. Data Protection in KenyaAlex B. Makulilo and Patricia Boshe
16. Privacy and Data Protection in LesothoAlex B. Makulilo and Kuena Mophethe
17. Data Protection in AngolaJoão Luís Traça and Francisca Correia
18. Data Protection in Mozambique – inception phaseJoão Luís Traça and Lídia Neves
Part III Comparative Conclusions19. Future of Data Protection in AfricaAlex B. Makulilo

Über Autor(innen)

Alex B. Makulilo (Dr.jur) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Information, Health and Medical Law (IGMR), Faculty of Law at the University of Bremen in Germany. Prior to that Makulilo worked as a Senior Lecturer of Information and Communications Law at the Open University of Tanzania, the academic rank he still holds today. He is an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. Makulilo is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Privacy Law Library (http://www.worldlii.org/int/special/privacy) of the World Legal Information Institute. He possesses considerable and diverse experience both in academia and legal industry with a keen research, teaching, and practitioner focus on Information and Communication Technology Law as it relates to privacy, data protection, intellectual property, cybersecurity, electronic commerce, and internet governance in Africa. Makulilo has published numerous articles and book reviews on these subjects in international peer-review journals and has presented at national and international conferences. His first book Privacy and Data Protection in Africa (2014) is a pioneering work for data privacy in Africa. Makulilo holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Master of Laws in Information and Communications Technology Law from the University of Oslo in Norway and Doctor Juris (suma cum laude) from the University of Bremen in Germany.