Archive · July 2025
The 2 archive entries on developments from July 2025.
On 18 July 2025, Uganda's PDPO found Google LLC in breach of the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 for failing to register and for transferring Ugandan users' data abroad without adequate safeguards, ordering registration within 30 days (Ssekamwa Frank & 3 Others v Google LLC). The office rejected Google's no-physical-presence defence outright, holding that any entity collecting or processing Ugandan citizens' data falls within the Act's reach.
Uganda's PDPO found in July 2025 that Google must register locally and evidence its cross-border data transfers, a finding that remains the continent's clearest extraterritoriality holding.
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