Rory Ovedje, Esq. | Data Privacy Lawyer
@ovedjerory
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Global data privacy consultant. NDPA/GDPR/PIPL/PDPL compliance. Cross border data transfer. | Startup lawyer. Supporting startup founders on legal matters.
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Joined January 2019
Technology compliance & data protection advisory that takes you from risk of penalties and investor pushback to audit-ready, trusted, and growth-focused. If you’re: • Unsure how to navigate data protection laws like (like the NDPR, NDPA, GAID or GDPR) while scaling • Worried
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I requested my Master’s transcript from Daejeon University in South Korea by email, and it was delivered electronically to my Canadian university within 48 hours at no cost. It doesn’t have to be hard.
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If you feel like you're bad at your job and it's making you depressed, just consider that, as the investigation of the recent heist revealed, the password to access the Louvre's videosurveillance system was "Louvre".
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I'm not even a landlord yet and I'm having PTSD from tenant wahala.
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No matter how talented you are, you need to have a sense of urgency and level of proactiveness to attain a certain level of career success.
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Someone just tagged me as their mentor on LinkedIn. 😂 Love the enthusiasm, but a quick PSA. Before engaging with anyone based on an assumed affiliation with me, kindly confirm first. Not every tag equals relationship. 🙏🏻 Someone lost ₦50k early this year because of a
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Don't let anybody pressure you out of your destiny into a dead weight career.
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It really depends on the argument. If the argument is that the number belongs to a WhatsApp TV business account and was publicly circulated for outreach, one could contend it falls outside the strict scope of private personal data and may not enjoy full data protection
@nwanneka_noble @nwanneka_noble, Learned Colleague, I am in full support of your suit, but it must be pointed out that publicly exposing someone's phone number without consent presents some privacy and data compliance issues. You can still pass your message and redact the number @ovedjerory
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A Must-Read for All Businesses Operating in or Serving Customers in Nigeria 🇳🇬 If you had an existing project, operation, or product before 19th September 2025, you have six months from that date (when the NDPA GAID 2025 came into force) to conduct a Data Protection Impact
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A Must-Read for All Businesses Operating in or Serving Customers in Nigeria 🇳🇬 If you had an existing project, operation, or product before 19th September 2025, you have six months from that date (when the NDPA GAID 2025 came into force) to conduct a Data Protection Impact
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How My Family Reacts When I Explain What I Do 😅 Every family has that one child whose job no one fully understands. For mine, at this moment, that’s me. Try explaining data protection compliance and tech law to your parents or cousins at Christmas. You’ll get everything
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We are looking for a rockstar who’s eager to learn and work on exciting legal projects.
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One thing people don’t know is that ‘there’s no innovation or technology without compliance!’ This is why you must take compliance seriously! It’s non-negotiable! 📌
Technology compliance & data protection advisory that takes you from risk of penalties and investor pushback to audit-ready, trusted, and growth-focused. If you’re: • Unsure how to navigate data protection laws like (like the NDPR, NDPA, GAID or GDPR) while scaling • Worried
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Instead of some young wigs to study what makes their contemporaries succeed and excel, they waste time trying to compete and outshine them. Listening and learning from people's success is far more productive than trying to compete with them. Collaboration is needed in this age.
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Think of yourself as a world-class product.
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Information without application is useless. You get to learn more by "doing".
Whatever you got to "learn", learn it fast. The real learning is in application — in projects. The real work is out there in the world — outside your bubble. So finish that article, book, course ASAP. Finishing it is not the achievement. Applying it is the goal. Monday! 🥂
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Memo to Lawyers For lawyers, people wait for your success just like they do for a promising sportsman making his debut. Make no mistake: most people will not advance much on you in your infancy, for you are “unknown.” I have a theory about young lawyers, which I have shared
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Whatever you got to "learn", learn it fast. The real learning is in application — in projects. The real work is out there in the world — outside your bubble. So finish that article, book, course ASAP. Finishing it is not the achievement. Applying it is the goal. Monday! 🥂
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