Editorial: Your NIN is your identity, stop giving it away The next time a security guard asks for your National Identification Number before allowing you into a building, ask a simple question: who gave that organization the right to collect it, and what happens to it after you leave? Citizens routinely surrender NINs, telephone numbers, addresses and photocopies of national IDs with little idea where that information goes. Yet these aren’t harmless pieces of paper. In an economy increasingly dependent on mobile money, electronic school payments, tax systems and insurance platforms, personal information has become valuable infrastructure, and, in the wrong hands, a potential gateway to fraud and identity theft. observer.ug/viewpoint/your-n… #Privacy #DataProtection