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Last updated: 19 September 2026
This page explains how Data Protection Digest decides what to cover, how it verifies what it publishes, and how it handles mistakes.
Editorial control over what gets covered, how it is described, and whether an item runs at all rests with the editor alone. No regulator, company or law firm pays for coverage, and none gets to see or approve an entry before it publishes. Where a subject of coverage is a Law Lab Africa client or counterparty in another matter, that relationship is disclosed in the entry.
Every claim in the Digest links to a source: a judgment to the judgment, a determination to the regulator's own document, a reported development to the underlying report. If we cannot source a fact, we do not publish it. Entries carry a coverage date, which is when we recorded the development, and that can differ from when the underlying event happened; where the distinction matters to the story, the entry says so. Many entries draw on the same structured research behind Law Lab Africa's enforcement tracker, which has its own editorial and corrections policy for that dataset.
Anyone, reader, regulator or the subject of an entry, may point out an inaccuracy. If the source documents bear it out, we correct the entry and note the correction on it, dated. We do not remove an entry because its subject finds it unflattering or inconvenient; where a decision is later overturned or a position changes, the entry is updated to say so, because that is part of the record, not an error in it.
To report an inaccuracy or raise a concern about coverage, write to info@lawlab.africa with the entry's URL and the source that contradicts it.