The Data Protection Act was not conceived in a vacuum. It exists to give life to Article 31 of the Constitution, which ...

Kenya's recently enacted Digital Health Act provides strong safeguards of patient data, including the safe transfer of personal, identifiable health data and medical records to and from health ...

Allowing the commercial sale of personal information could expose citizens to profiling, discrimination, financial fraud, identity theft and unwanted surveillance. Kenya’s plan to sell data collected ...

Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) this week issued new guidance notes for data protection in the education, communications, and digital credit sectors, as well as a general ...

Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019, is the legislation that governs how personal data is collected, processed, stored, and shared. It’s enacted to align with international data protection standards, ...

Two Kenyans accuse NTSA of violating privacy rights with E-Sticker displaying sensitive data, seeking its redesign to a QR ...

Startups processing personal data in Kenya are among the entities required to register with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), as the East African country implements a law ...

With the recent resurgence of discussions surrounding digital identification in Kenya, it is time to take a closer look at the potential benefits and associated risks. In October 2021, the National ...

Across Africa, agricultural producers are turning to digital solutions to get information about farming methods, market access or financial services. By 2022, there were 666 of these solutions ...