Tag: kenya data commissioner

  • Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: The Privacy Principle

    Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: The Privacy Principle

    In our third article in our Data Protection law series, we discuss the principles of data protection and how organisations can implement them. Principles & Rights based legislation Those who are by now familiar with Kenya’s Data Protection Act of 2019 will appreciate that this law, like the EU’s GDPR. is inward looking; it requires…

  • Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: Overview

    Kenya Data Protection Compliance Guide: Overview

    With President Kenyatta’s nomination, in October 2020, of Ms Immaculate Kassait as Data Commissioner and communicating the nomination to the National Assembly for its approval, it appears to be only a matter of time before the office of the Data Protection Commissioner is staffed, and the Data Protection Act of 2019 operationalized. The office of…

  • Lawful Processing of Personal Data: Is it all (only?) about Consent?

    Immaculate Kassait was sworn in on 16th November 2020 as Kenya’s first Data Commissioner (note that she is not the ‘Data Protection Commissioner’, which is the office, comprising the Data Commissioner and other staff appointed by the Data Commissioner). While we all wait to see her first course of action (Huduma Rules? Regulations on de-minimis…