{"id":278339,"date":"2026-06-22T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:00:20","slug":"voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters\u2019 privacy critical to public trust in 2027 elections, lawyers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/\">Voters\u2019 privacy critical to public trust in 2027 elections, lawyers warn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/\">https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 06:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"businessday.ng\">businessday.ng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The protection of voters\u2019 personal data will be a critical factor in sustaining public trust ahead of Nigeria\u2019s 2027 general elections, according to the Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI).\n<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said that while attention has largely focused on electoral credibility, transparency, security and logistics, concerns around the handling of citizens\u2019 personal information have become increasingly important as technology assumes a greater role in electoral administration.\n<\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, DRLI will host a virtual stakeholders\u2019 dialogue titled \u20182027 General Elections, Voters\u2019 Privacy and Public Trust: Matters Arising\u2019 on June 24, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>The event is expected to bring together experts in human rights, accountability and digital governance to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with safeguarding voters\u2019 data before the next general elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>Participants include Kolawole Oluwadare, deputy director of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP); Khadijah El-Usman, senior programmes officer at Paradigm Initiative; Inibehe Effiong, principal of Inibehe Effiong Chambers; and the head of research and monitoring and evaluation at Yiaga Africa. The session will be moderated by Solomon Okedara, co-founder of DRLI.<\/p>\n<p>According to DRLI, the increasing use of technology in voter registration, biometric verification, digital databases and electronic communications has improved efficiency in election management but has also introduced new privacy and security risks.\n<\/p>\n<p>Okedara said confidence in elections extends beyond activities at polling units and includes trust in how citizens\u2019 personal information is collected, processed and protected by public institutions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic trust in elections is not built only at polling stations. It is also built through confidence that citizens\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters\u2019 privacy critical to public trust in 2027 elections, lawyers warn https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/voters-privacy-critical-to-public-trust-in-2027-elections-lawyers-warn\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.businessday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bye-election-in-Taraba-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278347,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278339\/revisions\/278347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}