{"id":944743,"date":"2025-07-09T07:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944743"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:10:17","slug":"africas-largest-pay-tv-operator-facing-fine-for-nigeria-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/africas-largest-pay-tv-operator-facing-fine-for-nigeria-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s largest pay TV operator facing fine for Nigeria data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos: Regulators have levied a 766 million naira fine (about $500,000) on the Nigerian subsidiary of Africa&#8217;s biggest subscription television operator for a &#8220;patently intrusive&#8221; privacy breach. <\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Sunday accused MultiChoice Nigeria, the Nigerian outpost of South African cable TV provider MultiChoice, of violating data protection laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos: Regulators have levied a 766 million naira fine (about $500,000) on the Nigerian subsidiary of Africa&#8217;s biggest subscription television operator for a &#8220;patently intrusive&#8221; privacy breach. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Sunday accused MultiChoice Nigeria, the Nigerian outpost of South African cable TV provider MultiChoice, of violating data protection laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}