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Nigeria’s Data Protection Authority has imposed a fine of 766 million naira on MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, the largest pay television provider in Africa, for breaching the nation’s data protection regulations, according to a spokesperson.
MultiChoice, which provides pay-TV services under the names DSTV and GOTV in Nigeria, has faced various legal and regulatory challenges over the past two years, primarily related to contentious price increases and tax disputes.
Babatunde Bamigboye, the Head of Legal, Enforcement, and Regulation at the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), noted that the fine resulted from an investigation that began a year ago due to suspected violations of subscribers’ privacy rights and unlawful international transfers of personal data.
“The depth of data processing by MultiChoice is patently intrusive, unfair, unnecessary, and disproportionate,” affecting not only subscribers but also their associates,” Bamigboye said in a statement on Sunday.
Despite being instructed to take corrective actions, MultiChoice’s responses were deemed inadequate by Bamigboye.
