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17 Feb 2023
Era of Deepfakes: Risks and the need for protective laws: An Explainer
Deepfakes refer to a form of Artificial Intelligence that is programmed to replace one person’s likeness with another in recorded video. The term “deepfake” comes from the technology...
27 Jan 2023
Snooping on tax evaders: Balancing between protection of personal data and KRA’s bid to monitor transactions
As the world marks Data Privacy Day on 28th January 2023, Kenya has been busy this week with a series of activities organized by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to commemorate th...
7 Oct 2022
NTSA move to streamline transport network companies is a wake up call to data commissioner
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has moved to streamline digital hailing companies operating in the country. This is after NTSA issued a directive to digital hailing transport compan...
7 Oct 2022
Kenya’s National Cybersecurity Strategy: Securing Kenya’s cyberspace
Kenya developed its first cybersecurity strategy in 2014. Significantly, the 2014 strategy culminated in the development of the 2022 National Cybersecurity Strategy. The latter gives guidance for a co...
7 Oct 2022
Mitigating data breach costs
IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 offers IT, risk management and security leaders a lens into factors that can increase or help mitigate the rising cost of data breaches. It is a global report...
5 Aug 2022
The AU Data Policy Framework: Africa’s solution to data emancipation?
The data policy framework for African countries seeks to maximise the benefits of a data-driven economy by creating an enabling policy environment for private and public investments necessary to suppo...
17 Jun 2022
Hope for digital stakeholders after launch of DCI forensic lab to combat cybercrimes
The war against cybercrime in Kenya went a notch higher following an initiative by the government to curb the surge in the vice. During the launch of a new DCI national forensic laboratory in Na...
13 May 2022
Economic Survey 2022: A look at ICT sector performance during and after the pandemic
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) recently released the Economic Survey 2022, detailing how various sectors and job markets performed and offered insight into the post Covid-19 recovery. ...
11 Mar 2022
Cybersecurity in Kenyan Fintech, threats, trends and solutions: Highlights of GIZ Report, 2022
Digital payments are progressively entering the mainstream, in correlation to the increased access, use, and adoption of ICTs in Kenya. However, the transition to and eventual adoption of digital paym...
4 Mar 2022
The security initiative in CBK’s National Payments Strategy 2022-2025
In this second part of our series on the Central Bank of Kenya National Payments Strategy for 2022 – 2025 (NPS Strategy), we examine CBK’s strategic initiatives under the principle of security. A ...
26 Nov 2021
Kenya’s Cybersecurity Priorities in a Post-Covid World
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) with the support of UK’s Digital Access Programme convened a round table meeting to deliberate on Kenya’s common cybersecurity priorities in a post Covid-19 wor...
12 Nov 2021
Enhancing cybersecurity ahead of 2022 elections: Balancing act for new committee
The newly unveiled National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Committee (NC4) has been tasked with cracking down on misuse of social media especially as the country approaches the General Election...
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