After two years of delay, the members of Ghana’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) were sworn in Nov. 2 to act as the country’s data protection authority.
The DPC is charged under the Data Protection Act (Act 843) with protecting privacy by regulating the processing of personal information.
The framework data protection statute passed Parliament in 2011 and came into force May 18, 2012, but the DPC couldn’t start work immediately because of funding, logistics and other problems it faced 11 PVLR 1276, 8/13/12, 152 Privacy Law Watch, 8/8/12.
The DPC’s implementation came on the schedule predicted by DPC Acting Executive Director Teki Akuetteh Falconer .
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