With Cape Verde’s entry, the Budapest Convention is now adopted by 59 countries. “It provides guarantees for people whose data is the object of processing,” says Cape Verde’s Minister of Justice.
Cape Verde will be the second African country to sign an additional protocol to the convention on cybercrime to strengthen cooperation between States and the private sector, ensuring legal security for service providers, said an official source on Tuesday.
The information was provided by Cape Verdean Justice Minister, Joana Rosa, in Praia, at the opening of a training session for magistrates on investigating cybercrimes and digital evidence, indicating that Cape Verde has already formally expressed interest in signing the second additional protocol to the Budapest Convention (on cybercrime).
“This should happen later this month in Strasbourg, with the aim, among others, of strengthening cooperation between states and the private sector to ensure greater clarity and legal certainty for service providers and other entities regarding the circumstances in which they may respond to direct requests from criminal justice authorities of other parties for disclosure of electronic data,” said Joana Rosa.
The minister also stressed that on the same occasion the 108 Plus convention (a modernized convention and the European Data Protection Regulation) will be signed, considering that it “significantly increases” the principle of lawful processing and reinforces the protection of special categories of data.