Gen Z, right to privacy, and a revolution

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 has been a dream for democracy and governance professionals since...

Adequacy in Data Protection Regulation in Kenya

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. A novel adequacy framework was created, considering the problems of state...

Data Protection Compliance in 2023

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 partly due to the cost of compliance. Because of economic downturn, many data...

Podcast: Image Rights in Kenya

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 rights protection requirements. Check out byNMashnini podcast