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The policy shall promote full trust and protection of economic benefits of
cyberspace by sustaining balance between citizen’s expectations on
freedom of information and privacy, and government responsibilities on
data protection.
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The Policy shall ensure that conflicting issues of data protection and
information sharing will be addressed through appropriate cybercrime
legislative frameworks that will include socialization of legislations.
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The policy is committed to provide appropriate data governance measures
and an effective data protection and privacy regime, where data owners
and their processors shall have their obligations to protect citizen’s
personal data, as well as operate within the law when collecting, protecting
and processing such information.
vii.
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Specific Principles on Freedom of Expression & Political Stability:
The policy shall respect the free flow of information under secured and trusted
environment that satisfies the security needs of government, citizens and
private sector.
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The policy shall ensure commitment to default position where Nigerians and
individuals within its borders shall be free to express their opinions without
fear or reproach when using online media.
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The policy shall ensure that where individuals, organization’s or corporations’
expressions undermine the national security posture and or political stability of
the nation, in such instances, individuals, organizations or corporations
making such expressions shall be prosecuted under new legislations, which
will be addressed by the cybercrime legislative framework.
viii.
Specific Principles on Privacy and Lawful Interception:
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In order to address the conflicting issues of privacy and lawful interception,
the policy shall ensure commitment to the default position where Nigerians
and other nationals communicating within its borders shall be allowed to