Leakage: INEC trains staff on data protection, compliance

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has trained its unit connected information extortion and compliance arsenic portion of efforts to fortify the information of elector accusation and authoritative documents.

The one-day store was held on Saturday at the INEC FCT Conference Hall and focused connected equipping unit liable for elector information absorption with cognition of information extortion laws and compliance requirements.

Speaking astatine the event, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the FCT, represented by the Administrative Secretary, Mrs. Bimbo Oladunjoye, said the grooming was designed to update unit connected information extortion regulations and the ineligible implications of information breaches.

The grooming comes aft confidential elector accusation relating to Nollywood histrion Emeka Ike, a House of Representatives aspirant of the National Democratic Coalition, NDC, was reportedly accessed connected INEC’s portal utilizing valid unit credentials and subsequently released without authorization.

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