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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...
30 Sep 2022
Special feature:EY Kenya Data Protection & Privacy Survey, 2022: The path to compliance with data protection and privacy
EY Kenya Data Protection & Privacy Survey, 2022, was launched mid this year with a goal to firstly gauge how far along organisations are in their compliance journeys. Secondly, to identify the dif...
26 Aug 2022
Harmonising Africa’s regulatory for the realisation of an African data economy
In Part III of our series “Dissecting the African Union Data Policy Framework”, we will cover the key considerations in aligning a country’s regulatory context with the requirements of an Africa...
12 Aug 2022
What will cross border transfers on the African continent look like under the AU Data Policy Framework?
For digital trade to occur, data has to be moved across borders. While data accumulation can be a safe and secure way to manage data, hoarding data without means to use, exchange, or repurpose in a sa...
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...
13 May 2022
What KRA needs to do before leveraging on digital intelligence to weed out tax evaders
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has announced the establishment of an advanced forensic laboratory that will provide the authority the capability to access financial data from taxpayers’ computers...
22 Apr 2022
Data Privacy Certification: Establishment of Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum and Resurrection of the Privacy Shield
On Thursday, April 21, 2022, US Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo issued a statement on the establishment of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum. The forum consists of Canada, Japan, ...
14 Apr 2022
Details of the newly launched National Digital Master Plan expected to accelerate socio-economic growth
Information Communication Technologies are developing so quickly that there is a need to design a way to allow constant growth in the economic system and community. This is why the Cabinet Secretary f...
25 Mar 2022
Data Commissioner calls for public comments on draft Alternative Dispute Resolution framework
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has called for comments from the public on its first draft Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) framework for data protection disputes. The ADR,...
26 Feb 2022
Proposed EU Data Act and possible impact of the rules
On February 23, the European Commission proposed new rules on who can use and access data generated in the EU across all economic sectors. These rules would be contained in the proposed Data Act. Acco...
25 Feb 2022
Investing in the Metaverse: Opportunities in the platform’s next frontier
Human social interactions are on the verge of the next major evolution as we enter the age of the metaverse. The metaverse provides humans with access to a digital platform in parallel with our physic...
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