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Agency cautions Nigerians against Truecaller Service - NITDA

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By isah~loaded on september 24 2019 in news technology.  The National Information Technology Agency, NITDA says over seven million Nigerians who are active users of the Truecaller service are potentially at risk of breach of their privacy rights. Initial findings revealed that the Truecaller Privacy Policy is not in compliance with global laws on data protection and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) in particular. Hence the need to enlighten the public on some of the areas of non-compliance as well as guide those affected. ”The attention of the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) has been drawn to the potential breach of privacy rights of Nigerians by the Truecaller Service,”  the Direct General of the Agency Mr. Kashifu Inuwa said in a statement. The Agency, in accordance with Section 6(f) of the NITDA Act 2007, which empowers it to render advisory services in all information technology matters to the public and private sectors,...

MTN Data Gifting Is Back, You Can Now Share Data On MTN

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It's been ages since MTN Nigeria discontinued Data Gifting due to reasons best known to them. Ever since then, only MTN SME users have the privilege to share data from their data wallet to their customers or friends. Now it seems MTN have had a fresh rethink and has added back  Data Gifting  to their data catalogue. The goodnews now is that MTN Data Gifting is back and better, but there's more. For those of us that have been wanting to share our MTN data with a friend, but couldn't, MTN has made it possible for her customers to share data with friends and loved ones. HOW TO SHARE DATA ON MTN NIGERIA > Simply dial  *123*3# , then reply with  7 . > You'll get a list of options to choose from. You can transfer data from your data balance, buy for a friend, or even request data from a friend. > Kindly choose the option you wish to go for. > Enter the friend's MTN number > Then select the amount of data you would like to share with the friend. Yea...