Nigeria, March 4 -- The position was disclosed in Abuja on Wednesday in a statement signed by Babatunde Bamigboye, Head of Legal, Enforcement and Regulations at the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC).

According to Bamigboye, the coordinated action was driven by the International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group (IEWG) of the Global Privacy Assembly, reflecting a shared global determination to confront the growing dangers posed by AI-powered visual manipulation.

He explained that regulators acted amid mounting international anxiety over privacy violations linked to advanced AI systems capable of producing lifelike images and videos of real individuals without their consent.

Among the most troubling issues identified, he not...