It would no longer be business as usual with licensees of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) expected to provide verification services as the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) promised a close scrutiny of their operations
NDPC’s decision was to forestall any form of data breach from third party agents unaware of the provisions of Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and NIMC Privacy policy regarding citizens data.
NIMC and NDPC have recently expressed concerns over the incident of unauthorised National Identity Numbers (NIN) verification by expressverify.com and launched investigations to unreveal the truth.
It was gathered a third-party who, among others, was originally authorised to provide verification services to citizens and genuine businesses might have allowed expressverify.com to use its NIN verification credentials to conduct verification.
However, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission said at the weekend: “The circumstances surrounding this permission is still under investigation”.
A statement signed by the Head of Legal Enforcement and Regulations of the NDPC, Barrister Babatunde Bamigboye noted that no stone would be left unturned to ensure compliance with data protection and privacy of citizens by all regulatory authorities and stakeholders.
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