Ghana’s Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill 2025: A Threat to Privacy, Innovation, and Digital Freedom.
ABSTRACT: Ghana's proposed Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill 2025 aims to enhance cyber resilience but raises concerns about privacy, innovation, and digital freedom. The Bill grants excessive power to the Cyber Security Authority, threatens privacy and digital rights, and could stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. The article highlights nine key issues, including overreach of authority, threats to privacy, rising costs for businesses, and risks to democracy and digital freedom. It calls for Parliament to refine the Bill, ensuring it balances security with freedom and accountability. INTRODUCTION The draft of the Ghana Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, is being presented as a significant step forward for the country's cyber resilience. In reality, it seems to update the cybersecurity law, which gives the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) more powers to combat cybercrime and handle new technologies like AI, blockchain, and IoT. However, a closer look reveals a worrying real...