The Malabo Convention | Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection

Domain:

digital infrastructure

Record type:

policy

The Malabo Convention is a framework convention which is meant to provide general rules and principles on three broad themes: Personal data protection; electronic commerce; and cybersecurity and cybercrimes in the continent. Put simply, it offers a holistic continent-wide framework to harmonize data protection policies in Africa by catalyzing digital rights, mainly data protection, privacy and internet freedom.

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