We stopped transmission of subscribers’ data pending court ruling – Vodafone Ghana

Vodafone Ghana has said in a statement that it stopped the transmission of the data of subscribers released for contract-tracing purposes in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic after a private citizen filed a suit at the high court against the release of his personal data by the telcos.

In a statement, Vodafone Ghana said that in March 2020, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo passed an Executive Instrument (E.I. 63) that mandated all mobile network operators to submit subscriber information known as call data records (CDRs) to the National Communications Authority (NCA) for contact-tracing purposes.

Vodafone Ghana said all the mobile network operators complied with the E.I 63.

“The Executive Instrument was subsequently challenged by a customer, who filed an application at the High Court for an injunction to stop all mobile network operators from sharing his data with the National Communications Authority (NCA)”.

“Upon receipt of the injunction application, Vodafone Ghana, immediately stopped the transmission of all subscriber data related to the contact-tracing initiative, pending the court’s ruling on the case, scheduled for June 23 2020,” it noted.

Vodafone Ghana said: “We will always uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations including the Data Protection Act”.