[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010, Discussions :Day 7 of 8 Theme:E-Crime, Online Privacy & Data Security- Continuation

[Judy Okite]

Good Morning,

As we near, closing these discussions we, feel free to contribute to the
former threads by clicking on the correct subject/title.

Today we continue with ,


   - a)      E-crime- situation in Kenya
   - b)      E- Voting- where Kenya is @

And today we add

c)      c)  Online privacy and data security

 i)      Sim card registration-  on the 21st June 2010 the government
through  CCK(Communication Commission of Kenya) declared it mandatory for
all mobile users to register their Sim cards

More info: http://www.cck.go.ke/news/2010/news_21june2010.html

“The exercise is aimed at safeguarding the public against acts of
insecurity, including the wide spread threats posed by terrorism, drug
trafficking, money laundering, extortion, fraud, hate messages, and
incitement that are now wide spread throughout the world, “said the Minister
for Information and Communication.

Currently we have 18million (I stand to be corrected ) mobile users in
Kenya, In these forms, one has to give their residential area , their
identity card number, their birth information etc… That is a whole lot of
data on Kenyans… in short , a grand database! From yesterday’s discussions
we saw that currently we have no LAW  to guard this database.

Q. What will stop the Authority from using my details wrongly?

Q. What happens if I don’t register by 31st of July? I will be disconnected?
Under what LAW?




ii) When I send a SMS to 3007 with an ID card number, it returns with voter
details, full names, place of voting and voter card number of the ID card
holder, however,

1, the system put in place, does not verify in any way that it’s the real
owner of the ID card, that has sent this query?

a)      Can this data be manipulated? Then what?

A question, on top of my head, with all these ongoing, what creates demand
for LAW?(if there is anything, like that)



Your queries, comments, inputs, corrections are welcome!



Kind Regards,




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what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
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