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Essay / Kenya Privacy Case Study - 3233
The topic of individual and data privacy in Kenya has not garnered enough national conversations and academic discourse to warrant academic investigation. Our Kenyan law on the subject of privacy remains sketchy; although in one way or another we may be able to formulate particular impressions and concepts about an individual's private life as it relates to Kenyan written laws. For a long time, privacy and personal data protection in Kenya have long been an ornamental subject of the banking sector. law and, lately, the explosion of the telecommunications services sector has been linked to questions regarding privacy, particularly with regard to the protection of personal financial information on mobile and banking platforms. Under Article 31 of the new Constitution of Kenya, everyone has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have his person, home or property searched; their property seized; information relating to their family or private affairs unnecessarily requested or revealed; or the confidentiality of their communications violated. Consequently, in article 35, every citizen has the right to access information held by the State; and any information held by another person that is necessary for the exercise or protection of any fundamental right or freedom. In addition, everyone has the right to rectification or deletion of false or misleading information concerning them. Our Kenyan privacy laws appear to have borrowed heavily from the reference points of international conversations on privacy and data protection: the Council of Europe Convention. for the protection of individuals with regard to the automated processing of personal data; United Nations guidelines for computerized personal data files... middle of paper ......ntify many anonymous records of individuals. The Internet's moral standards are not developed enough to ensure that web users can always be trusted. of each person’s reliability. Kenya's legal privacy regulations are inconsistent and, in some cases, fail to adequately address the challenges posed by the Internet today. Do providers guarantee that they will treat information according to users' preferences or in accordance with the law to ensure reasonable confidentiality? In some cases, service providers ignore regulations on personal data for technical reasons: why encrypt personal data, it could end up slowing down services? Another challenge is that when personal data is passed on to third parties, it becomes even more difficult to ensure privacy protection. Faced with all these problems, service providers must ensure that their platforms