Uganda, Feb. 4 -- Uganda risks losing important data to unauthorised users because most of the government's data protection officers are neither experienced nor certified.

This was part of the findings from the data protection needs assessment report undertaken the Ministry of ICT.

The report conducted in November 2022 showed that majority of the data protection officers had not encountered any data protection breaches while they worked.

This according to sector players leaves a question of how there can be data protection officers who can not identify the actual problems.

These were part of the proceedings of the second Data Protection conference, part of the activities to mark the International Data Privacy Day.

Speaking at the eve...