January 28, 2023 5:39 PM
Speaking on the need to regulate privacy in the country, the minister said organisations that have breached citizens’ information have been sanctioned. “If you have a mobile phone, you’ll discover that with some applications, if care is not taken, the information the controllers of these gadgets have about you, you don’t even know it. They know more about you than you know about yourselves.“For example, in three years, an application could remind you about all your movements, the images you have captured, who you have been with. Meanwhile, you have forgotten about it.
“Go to ordinary Google and search something once or twice. From that day, you’ll begin to have reminders and recommendations about whatever you had searched earlier. They know because they save that information from what you have searched before. “So by implication, the data being generated today within 48 hours can be equated to the quantity of data generated previously within 5,000 years.