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3 Jul 2021
Data Sovereignty: Threat to Cloud?
On June 22, Senegal’s President Macky Sall launched a national data centre which will host Senegal’s all government data and digital platforms in an effort to strengthen its digital sovereignt...
18 Jun 2021
A Review of a report on publicly available Data Policies of Commercial Banks
The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Strathmore University has published a study of the Publicly Available Data Policies of Commercial Banks operating in Kenya ...
28 May 2021
State of the GDPR at 3 and its global effect
As of Tuesday 25 May, it was 5 years of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). 3 years since its enforcement and its impact on the world can be felt. The Regulations have elevated the awareness o...
28 May 2021
Goodies from Facebook Safety and Security team
NEW TOOLS TO MANAGE FAKE NEWS ONLINE On 26th May 2021, Facebook launched new ways to: inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker as well as take strong...
21 May 2021
Regulatory Impact Assessment on the Data Protection Regulations
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) vide a Gazette Notice No. 4697 informed the public that a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) on the proposed Data Protection (Registration of Data...
14 May 2021
Children of a lesser god? How Whatsapp is imposing Terms and Conditions outside the EEA
WhatsApp’s new terms of service will go into effect from May 15, 2021 all over the world except for the EU. This is because WhatsApp users in Europe can opt-out of the new privacy policy owing to th...
7 May 2021
Public Bodies and data protection: What you need to know
Public bodies are expected to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act, 2019. The Act defines a data controller as a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which,...
7 May 2021
Big Data 101
The term ‘big data’ refers to a collection of data that is large and complex. It is data that grows drastically with time and is difficult to process or store using the traditional data management...
30 Apr 2021
A note on the Data Protection (General) Regulations
Earlier this month, the Data Protection Task Force along with the Office of the Data Commissioner (ODPC) and the Ministry of ICT, published 3 draft regulations for public participation. This note prov...
23 Apr 2021
Primer on the proposed registration of Data controllers and processors
The Data Protection Commissioner has published the draft Data Protection (Registration of Data Controllers and Data Processors) Regulations, 2021. These Regulations will give effect to the provision o...
9 Apr 2021
Data Protection Regulations: What To Expect
In January 2021, the Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications, Technology, Innovation and Youth Affairs Hon. Joe Mucheru constituted the Taskforce on the Development of Data Protection Genera...
2 Apr 2021
Data Protection and COVID-19 Health data at the workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives and livelihoods of many individuals. Many businesses are still trying to catch up with the new normal which has greatly affected how transactions take pla...
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