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

[wesley kirinya]

 i)     
Sim card registration
1. Where is this database located? Is it at the private companies (Telecos) or some government office?
 2. Do the police have the hardware and software to cheaply, efficiently and conviniently access the data? Who within the police authorizes access to such data? What measures are there to prevent an authorized person viewing the data from abusing it because now the person not only sees numbers, but knows the names and residential addresses of people contacting a particular number.

3. Why give an ID number and birth info, yet this birth info was used when getting the ID? It seems the govenment needs to put it's data in order.

--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com>
Subject: [Skunkworks] Kenya IGF 2010, Discussions :Day 7 of 8 Theme:E-Crime, Online Privacy  & Data Security- Continuation
To: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks at lists.my.co.ke>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 6:47 AM

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 Kenyab)     
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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