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31 Mar 2023
Corporates, influencers and copyright: Navigating the tide and entrenching a culture of compliance Precedent-setting decision?
If the recent pronunciation by a court in a copyright suit by Hip Hop artiste Hubert Nakitare, alias Nonini, against Japanese company Syinix Electronics Ltd and influencer Brian Mutinda, does not ring...
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...
20 Jan 2023
Uproar over Zuku services call for guidelines to streamline Internet Service Providers
Zuku, an internet service provider owned by Wananchi Group, has recently faced sharp public criticism. The company received widespread backlash online from its customers over poor internet services. Z...
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...
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