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Legal Update

Legal Update – 27 August 2025

Instagram Photo Triggers Payment of Fine

  • First decision of its kind in Tanzania
  • Children’s images qualify as sensitive personal data under the PDPA
  • Commercial use without parental consent amounts to unlawful processing
  • Refusal to delete photo breaches right to erasure
  • PDPC affirms its jurisdiction over children’s data protection complaints
  • Respondent fined and ordered to pay damages

Legal Quest

In this week’s Legal Quest the poll results read:

  • Can a marriage be legally annulled if one of the parties was incapable of consummating it from the outset?
    YES – 91% | NO – 9%
  • Is it allowed to run a funding campaign to support someone in need?
    YES – 60% | NO – 40%
  • Can a person be charged with a crime for sharing someone else’s private information online?
    YES – 96% | NO – 4%
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