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THE STANDARD SCI & TECH It will now be illegal for companies to collect personal data from Kenyans to use for direct marketing without obtaining the users’ consent. This is according to the Data Protection (General) Regulations, 2021 which introduces new statutory requirements that will significantly raise the cost of doing business for many firms. “In obtaining consent from a data subject, a data controller or a data processor shall ensure that the data subject has the capacity to understand and communicate their consent and is informed of the nature of the processing in simple and clear language,” explains the regulations. The new regulations define personal data to include information collected from surveillance cameras, information associated with web browsing as well as data collected from biometric technology among others. ....
THE STANDARD SCI & TECH ICT PS Jerome Ochieng during the launch of National Fibre Optic Backbone Information Network in Kisumu. (Collins Oduor, Standard)
The Auditor General has flagged the multi-billion National Fibre Optic Backbone (NOFBI) project over opaque tendering processes. She said the taxpayers’ resources could have been lost in the project. In 2018/2019, the State Department of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) paid Chinese firm Huawei Sh1.7 billion for the construction of the second phase of NOFBI. However, according to the Auditor General, there are no details in respect to the date the payments were made or who authorised the Exim Bank to release the payments. ....