Weekly Digital Rights Report 3rd Issue
On 26th June 2025, our own Muhindo Morgan appeared on a panel with the National Identification Registration Authority Executive Director, Ms. Rosemary Kisembo, and the Acting Executive Director of the Personal Data Protection Office, Mr. Baker Birikujja, in a press and public engagement convening organised at the Uganda Law Society House in Kampala, Uganda..
The event started with a presentation from our own, Morgan Muhindo, who raised privacy concerns, Data Subject rights issues like commercialisation of data rectification rights and cyber security concerns over NIRA’s centralised ID system, but also, he highlighted the capacity building activities HEAPI is doing in Western Uganda and Central Uganda around the National ID system; he highlighted the various trainings conducted by HEAPI in over 12 villages covering over 14 local councils 1, in villages located in Wakiso, Buliisa, Hoima, and Kiryandongo Districts.
The trainings followed HEAPI’s field findings that most of the community leaders had little to no knowledge of the legal processes in regard the National ID system. For example, rectification of errors, change of name requirements, among others, which are also data subject rights under the Data Protection and Privacy Act.
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