By Benjamin Adamafio Commey, GNA
Accra, Feb 9, GNA - Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, has said that measures have been put in place for the enactment of a new cyber security law by June this year to sanitise and safeguard the country's cyberspace.
The Communications Minister said the Ministry was currently in consultation with relevant stakeholders to solicit their inputs after which a bill would be drafted and tabled before parliament for consideration.
The law, she said, when passed would strengthen mandated state security agencies to make request for personal details and phone records of individuals suspected of any cyber security breaches for further investigations.
The Minister said this in an interview with the media on the side-lines of a float organised by the Ministry of Communications and the National Cyber Security Centre in Accra, to create awareness on a safer internet usage, particularly among children and young people.
The float, organized with support from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) formed part of the Ministry's prior activities to mark this year's Safer Internet Day, which is commemorated on the 11th of February annually.
Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said "we have laws but we need to strengthen them. The Electronic Transactions Act for instance, contains a bit of security protection, and other international policies we have signed on to also demand that we strengthen our laws to protect our children in their interactions he internet and so by June this year, we are going to introduce new cyber security law that would contain provisions on a broader internet interactions to give the security agencies the power to obtain court order to ..
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