The office of Rwanda Prime Minister Édouard Ngirente announced the Cabinet voted to approve the country's draft data protection bill. A final draft of the bill was previously published Jan. 30 and included provisions on data subject rights, general rules for data collection and processing, and procedures for data activities, such as transfers, sharing and retention.
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