Data Protection

June 2024 shall be remembered as the month Kenyans tested the limits of digital rights and the Kenya Kwanza government responded by restricting the rights. What I have witnessed in the last month [...]

Thesis title: Adequacy in Data Protection Regulation in Kenya Citation: This thesis aimed to determine whether the Kenyan Data Protection Act of 2019 (KPDA) provides “adequate” legal protection. [...]

With the digitisation of government services and unique personal identifier (UPI) projects in motion, the Government of Kenya is presented with an opportunity to do things right. As you may [...]

Is compliance with the Data Protection Act, 2019 worth it? This is one of the fundamental questions data controllers and data processors have been asking themselves. In my experience this is [...]

Nomalanga Mashinini and Mugambi Laibuta discuss the Image Rights legal framework in Kenya. They scrutinize the legitimate expectation of privacy and the lack of the latter requirement in image [...]

Strathmore’s CIPIT Acting Director, Dr. Melissa Omino and Mugambi Laibuta discuss the recently published data regulations under the Data Protection Act 2019 of Kenya

Every other Kenyan has been demanding answers as to why mobile phone service operators have put in place a requirement that they re-register their SIM-cards or else they get disconnected from the [...]

Three Regulations under the Data Protection Act, 2019 have been published. These are, the Data Protection (General) Regulations, 2021, the Data Protection (Complaints Handling and Enforcement [...]

Two years ago, the Kenyan Data Protection Act, 2019 (DPA) came into operation. The DPA gives effect to Article 31(c) and (d) of the Constitution that relate to the right to privacy. The DPA [...]