Tag: kenya data protection

  • Kenya Data Protection: New mandatory registration for businesses

    Kenya Data Protection: New mandatory registration for businesses

    The publication in the Kenya Gazette of the Data Protection (Registration of Data Controllers and Data Processors) Regulations 2021 (via Legal Notice no. 265) implemented section 18 of the Data Protection Act 2019 which provides for mandatory registration of data controllers and processors by the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC. Mandatory registration will now commence on…

  • Our Guest blogpost series: Data protection and WhatsApp groups, by Linet Owinga

    Our Guest blogpost series: Data protection and WhatsApp groups, by Linet Owinga

    Q I am a member of several social media groups, like WhatsApp and Facebook, where I share/give (and receive) personal information and data about me, my family, my connections, and generally my life. Are there legal limits to other members sharing what I have shared, basically to legally protect my personal stuff? A Kenya’s Data…

  • 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…

  • Kenya Personal Data Protection Concerns Around COVID-19 measures

    Kenya’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 700 people at the start of the second week of May 2020, well within the numbers the region is reporting, though far from the tens of thousands reporting across Europe and the United States. Nevertheless, Kenyan health authorities have consistently maintained the need to ensure confidentiality of patients personal identifiable…

  • Kenya’s 2019 Census: What you need to know

    Kenya’s 2019 National Population and Housing Census is just under 10 days away. The census will be conducted pursuant to The Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2018, which details the census date and the information each person being counted will be required to provide. This will be the sixth national census since independence, and the…