Serves under-18s, in Ghana

Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), ss. 37-38 (special personal data) · Read the law's page

• Do not process special personal data, including a person's ethnicity, race, political opinion, religious belief, health, sexual life, or criminal behaviour, or the personal data of a child under parental control, unless a listed exception applies.
• Process special personal data only where it is necessary or the data subject consents, treating processing as necessary where it exercises or performs a right or obligation the law imposes on an employer.
• Where consent cannot be given or has been unreasonably withheld, process special personal data only to protect the vital interests of the data subject.
• Do not process special personal data about race or ethnic origin unless it is necessary to identify and eliminate discriminatory practices and is carried out with appropriate safeguards for the data subject's rights and freedoms.

Cybersecurity Act, 2020 (Act 1038), s. 59, and Second Schedule item 59(4) · Read the law's page

• This binds the public and private sectors generally in Ghana; the Act states no size or sector gate for this duty.
• Comply with the cybersecurity standards the Cyber Security Authority develops, establishes, adopts and publishes on its website, which by section 59(1) cover education and skills development, hardware and software engineering, governance and risk management, research and development, and any other area the Authority determines in line with international best practice.
• Breaching an adopted standard is an administrative penalty of not less than two hundred and fifty penalty units and not more than twenty-five thousand penalty units, payable to the Cyber Security Authority.

Cybersecurity Act, 2020 (Act 1038), ss. 47(2) and 47(5)-(6), and Second Schedule item 47(6) · Read the law's page

• Report a cybersecurity incident to the relevant Sectoral Computer Emergency Response Team, or to the National Computer Emergency Response Team where the institution has no Sectoral team, within twenty-four hours after the incident is detected.
• Where the institution is itself a cybersecurity service provider licensed by the Authority, also submit a periodic report on its operations, including any cybersecurity incident, within the period the Authority sets.
• Failing to report within the twenty-four-hour window is an administrative penalty of not less than two hundred and fifty penalty units and not more than five thousand penalty units, payable to the Cyber Security Authority.
• This binds the person in charge of any public or private institution in Ghana that detects a cybersecurity incident, not only the owner of a critical information infrastructure or a licensed cybersecurity service provider.