Privacy and Data Protection in the Developing World
Present Landscape
Data Protection in developing countries
Risks to Privacy in developing countries
Challenge
Privacy Invasive Technologies
The right to privacy
Position of authorities
The tug-of-war
Position of Government
Review of legal framework and procedures
Training
Way forward
Bridging the digital gap
Privacy Risks of cloud computing
Shift towards quality access
Growing privacy concern
Need for Awareness
Adequate laws and regulations
Concern over data
International Resolutions

Report Findings

During an average minute in 2012, Google received 2m search requests, Facebook users shared around 700,000 content items and Twitter sent out 200,000 tweets, notes the report. However, an estimated 60% of such cloud traffic came from Europe and North America, followed by the Asia-Pacific region (33%). Latin America, the Middle East and Africa together accounted for only 5%.