HewardMills, the Data Protection Officer service provider, along with the Data Protection Commission and Cyber Security Authority (CSA) recently took part in a timely panel discussion on the growing need to strengthen data protection and cyber resilience in Africa.
BBC News
By Jane Wakefield
image captionMy search to track down my own telephone number began with a WhatsApp message
A few months ago, I received a pitch for a story - nothing unusual there, as I am a journalist and receive a lot of pitches - but what set this one aside was the story idea arrived as a flurry of WhatsApp messages.
And I was surprised, as I ve never been approached by a stranger via the messaging app before.
I found it unusual and a bit invasive, so I asked the person sending the messages how they had obtained my phone number.