Category: News Updates

  • 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…

  • Disney trade marked Hakuna Matata in the US, but unlikely in Kenya and East Africa

    https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/analysis/ideas/How-US-firm-trademarked-the-hakuna-matata/4259414-5197122-o853diz/index.html

  • Kenya: BCLB Prohibits Licensing of SportPesa Trade Mark

    Many sports betting firms in Kenya must have seen (and celebrated) the widely publicized media return of SportPesa (the media must have itself missed out on the apparently huge advertising revenue from SporPesa), welcoming the return of the giant sport betting company that not only sponsored the KPL and local clubs, but also Everton (remember…

  • Kenya COVID-19 Numbers

    Total confirmed cases today: 559 Total deaths today: 18 Total recoveries today: 478 Total tested today: 3,074 Total tested to date: 678,000 Total confirmed cases to date: 70,804 Total deaths to date: 1,287 Total recoveries to date: 45,766

  • 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…