
The Executive Director of the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Mrs Teki Akuetteh Falconer, has appealed to the public to report data collectors and processors who infringe on their privacy for investigation and redress. She noted that the public was yet to take advantage of the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), which was passed to regulate the processing of personal information and also to make provision for the process, obtaining, holding, using or disclosing personal information. Mrs Falconer, who made the appeal at a press conference in Accra yesterday, cited for instance that since the passage of the Act in 2012, only one person had so far reported harassment with unsolicited text messages from mobile network operators to the commission. She said the commission was unable to confront the telecom operators because they had always insisted that they had the subscribers’ consent.