2025 Master Classes

Consistent with previous editions, PSA 2025 featured a series of focused Master Classes addressing critical challenges and opportunities in the digital privacy landscape.

  1. Litigating Privacy Rights in the Digital Age: Strategies, Challenges, and Precedents: This masterclass equipped participants with the knowledge and strategies needed to litigate privacy rights effectively—from understanding key legal frameworks to leveraging digital-forensic evidence and strategic remedies.
  2. A Masterclass on Data Breach Management: This masterclass equipped participants with practical skills to effectively manage data breaches—from prevention to detection, response, and recovery.

A Masterclass on Data Breach Management

Data breaches are an ever-present threat in today’s digital landscape, affecting governments, businesses, and individuals alike. This masterclass was designed to equip participants with practical skills to effectively manage data breaches—from prevention to detection, response, and recovery. Participants gained insights from real-world case studies and engage in a simulated data breach response scenario.

DATE: Wednesday 26th Nov 2025
TIME: 8:30am – 9:45am

Litigating Privacy Rights in the Digital Age: Strategies, Challenges, and Precedents

Data privacy violations pose complex challenges for governments, corporations, and individuals across Africa’s rapidly evolving digital environment. This masterclass was designed to equip participants with the knowledge and strategies needed to litigate privacy rights effectively—from understanding key legal frameworks to leveraging digital-forensic evidence and strategic remedies.

Attendees drew on landmark case precedents and engage in an interactive mock-courtroom scenario to translate theory into practice, emerging ready to build, defend, and advance impactful privacy-rights cases continent-wide.

DATE: Thursday 27th Nov 2025
TIME: 8:30am – 9:45am