BY DENNIS NDIRITU Data protection in Kenya has been an area of concern for a long period especially with the advent of technology in governance and commerce. The Data Protection Act No. 24 of 2019 is now law following Presidential ascent of the Bill that had been undergoing deliberations in the Senate and National Assembly for an extended period. Prior to this, the state had been faulted for failing to provide a reliable data protection framework for shaping Information Communication Technology (ICT) policies in the country, in the wake of the proliferation of ICTs that required a legal framework for…
Author: Dennis Ndiritu
They have chosen to engage in a tricky tech war, a classic case of bringing a knife to a gunfight. While they may win the legal battle, if they don’t adapt to the rapidly changing world of automation, they will definitely lose the tech war. BY DENNIS NDIRITU Pay-TV service provider MultiChoice has announced its intention of suing Safaricom and Jamii Telecom over copyright infringement. MultiChoice wants the court to compel the two telco firms to block access to websites streaming matches pirated from its Super Sport channels. Citing Section 35B of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2019, Multi Choice are…
Critics have viewed the judgment as offering a wide and amorphous leeway on free speech and an outrageous attempt to limit progressive European Union laws only to European Countries BY DENNIS NDIRITU On September 24, Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that Google will not be required to enforce Europe’s controversial Right to be forgotten law outside of the European Union. The right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, enables European residents through the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) of the European Union to demand that Google and other search…
Article 231(4): Notes and coins issued by the Central Bank of Kenya may bear images that depict or symbolise Kenya or an aspect of Kenya but shall not bear the portrait of any individual On June 1, 2019 Kenya celebrated its 56th Madaraka Day. A day commemorated for the day Kenya attained internal self-governance from the British imperialists. June 1 was however a very unique day for Kenyans not because a national day was for the first time being celebrated in Narok County, but because the Governor of the Central Bank, Dr Patrick Njoroge, was launching new notes for the…