Kenya's recently enacted Digital Health Act provides strong safeguards of patient data, including the safe transfer of personal, identifiable health data and medical records to and from health ...

Startups processing personal data in Kenya are among the entities required to register with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), as the East African country implements a law ...

Allowing the commercial sale of personal information could expose citizens to profiling, discrimination, financial fraud, identity theft and unwanted surveillance. Kenya’s plan to sell data collected ...

The public sector guidance note puts it plainly: as Kenya pursues its digital transformation agenda, protecting citizens' data is not a barrier to that ambition but its facilitator. An e-government ...

Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) this week issued new guidance notes for data protection in the education, communications, and digital credit sectors, as well as a general ...

Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019, is the legislation that governs how personal data is collected, processed, stored, and shared. It’s enacted to align with international data protection standards, ...

With the recent resurgence of discussions surrounding digital identification in Kenya, it is time to take a closer look at the potential benefits and associated risks. In October 2021, the National ...

Across Africa, agricultural producers are turning to digital solutions to get information about farming methods, market access or financial services. By 2022, there were 666 of these solutions ...