General News of Sunday, 25 June 2017Source: Graphic.com.gh4 entities summoned by Cybercrime Unit for failing to register with DPCDr Herbert Gustav Yankson, Director in charge of Cybercrime Unit at CID Head OfficeManagers and Directors of four data controlling entities have been summoned by the Cybercrime Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for failing to register their facilities with the Data Protection Commission (DPC). The move forms part of a robust mechanism put in place by the DPC, in collaboration with the CID of the Ghana Police Service, to prosecute non-compliant data controllers. "We have educated all data controllers on the need to register with DPC, but unfortunately most of them have still not done so as required by Section 27 of the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). BackgroundThe DPC last week initiated an action to prosecute officials of 177 institutions which function as data controllers but have failed to register with the commission, as required by the law. The three-month period, however, expired on July 31, 2015 and was subsequently extended by another three months, on the request of data controllers.

Source: GhanaWeb June 25, 2017 09:11 UTC