{"id":185049,"date":"2024-11-21T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-experts-call-for-african-centric-data-protection-strategies-amid-rising-cybersecurity-threats\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:05:44","slug":"zimbabwe-experts-call-for-african-centric-data-protection-strategies-amid-rising-cybersecurity-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-experts-call-for-african-centric-data-protection-strategies-amid-rising-cybersecurity-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Experts Call for African-Centric Data Protection Strategies Amid Rising Cybersecurity Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The 6th edition of Privacy Symposium Africa convened in Harare entered day two focusing on the privacy risks posed by rapidly advancing technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Participants, including representatives from media, civil society, government (including POTRAZ), and legal sectors, highlighted the vulnerabilities inherent in modern digital landscapes, particularly concerning social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Concerns regarding technological threats to personal data were central to the discussions which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.potraz.gov.zw\/\" rel=\"noopener\">POTRAZ<\/a> Deputy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411210152.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 6th edition of Privacy Symposium Africa convened in Harare entered day two focusing on the privacy risks posed by rapidly advancing technologies. Participants, including representatives from media, civil society, government (including POTRAZ), and legal sectors, highlighted the vulnerabilities inherent in modern digital landscapes, particularly concerning social media platforms. Concerns regarding technological threats to personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,39893,6880,9562,9880,5060,257,7897,6678,254,7273,7611,4686,421],"class_list":["post-185049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africancentric","tag-call","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-experts","tag-news","tag-protection","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategies","tag-threats","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}