Posts by Franklin Akinsuyi
About: Franklin Akinsuyi
Website: http://www.datalaws.com
Profile: F. Franklin Akinsuyi (LL.B, BL, MSc, LLM) MBCS Franklin Akinsuyi is the Founding Partner of DataLaws, where he specialises in Information Technology Contract Negotiations, Information Security Law, Data Protection, Electronic Commerce and Identity Theft. A law graduate, Franklin has a master’s degree in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University where he specialised in secure electronic transactions over the Internet. He also has a masters in Computers and Communications Law from the Centre of Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary University) UK, specialising in Privacy and Security Laws. Over the past 13 years, he has advised numerous global organisations on how to map their environments information security strategies and practices to meet legislative requirements. He has been a Data Protection consultant for one of the UK’s largest utility companies advising on Data Protection issues. Franklin has also been a Sarbanes-Oxley consultant where he has advised six multinational organisations in different industries on implementing effective internal controls to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. He has considerable experience of Information Technology, business processes and has been involved in the implementation of Global IT projects. More recently Franklin has been involved in advising how to reduce risks to key e-government systems located in onshore and offshore environments. Franklin has also written Technology Law related articles for the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. Franklin is a member of the Society for Computers and Law; he is also a member of the British Computer Society and course Director at DataLaws. He can be contacted by email at fakinsuyi@datalaws.com
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Combating Computer Crime in Africa, Proposal for a Pan-African Cyber Crime Legal Framework -Part 3
Read part 1 Read part 2 Federal Information Security Management Act US (2002) FISMA requires federal agencies to develop, document, and implement agency wide programs to provide information security for the information and information system
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Combating Computer Crime in Africa, Proposal for a Pan-African Cyber Crime Legal Framework -Part 2
Read Part 1 Here Data Protection and Privacy Laws Data Protection involves the protection of personal data, which covers both facts and opinions about an individual. It includes the implementation of administrative, technical and or physical me
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Combating Computer Crime in Africa, Proposal for a Pan-African Cyber Crime Legal Framework -Part 1
African countries are at various stages in their implementation of e-government and e-commerce environments. This is being undertaken with a view to utilise technology not only to reduce costs, but also to save time and energy on activities tha
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Nigerian Cyber Crime and Privacy Legislations, Time for Review(Part 2)
Privacy of Electronic Communications Directive (EU 2002) This Directive repeals the Telecommunications Data Protection Directive (97/66/EC) and lays certain obligations on telecommunications companies and service providers. One of the new developm
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Nigerian Cyber Crime and Privacy Legislations, Time for Review(Part 1)
Nigeria has been in the throes of implementing technology law and computer crime legislation for the best part of half a decade. Within this period, there have been two Bills drafted in an attempt to bring our laws up to date and in line with o
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Data Protection Legislation for Nigeria, The Time is Now! (Part 2)
Data Protection and Financial institutions With the introduction of online services, financial institutions have made it more convenient for customers to access their accounts. It is to be noted however that prior to online accounts being crea
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Data Protection Legislation for Nigeria, The Time is Now (Part 1)
Over the last decade, identity theft has become one of the fastest growing global crimes. This can be attributed to a number of reasons: • Huge margins for little effort and risk on the part of criminals • Inadequ
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