[kictanet] Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 7 of 10: How to enhance Cybersecurity

Thu Jun 30 13:09:20 EAT 2016

Quick one ; on the subject of data retention - can this be expounded with
regards to duration, accessibility of retained data - how fast and also
impact on budget for providers to meet the cost of retaining data.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> All
>
> In relation to this, I discovered today that a lot of the privacy issues
> are allegedly being violated by a certain global brand.
>
> Google, could have a record of everything you have said around it for
> years, and you can listen to it yourself.
>
> The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have
> around its products.
>
> The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and
> storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language
> recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.
>
> Read on:-
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-and-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html
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>
> In relation to this discussion we would love to have a comment from the
> Ministry and Google.
>
> *Ali Hussein*
> *Principal*
> *Hussein & Associates*
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> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
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> On 30 Jun 2016, at 12:52 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Great thanks Sam,
>
> We will collate all the comments and forwad them to the Ministry.
>
> Thank you
>
> Best Regards
>
> On 6/30/16, Sam Oduor <sam.oduor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Barrack
>
>
> A great comment has been posted on the Jadii Platform
>
>
> June Tessy - a day ago Do we really need another 'specialized' agency yet
>
> there are already existing units in Government and Regulators that are
>
> mandated to deal with these like the National Intelligence Service, ICTA,
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> CA Perhaps building onto the already existing units in terms of resources
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> and capacity may be more sustainable
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>
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
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> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>
> Listers,
>
>
> Many thanks to those who contribued to day 6 discussions. The thread
>
> is still open, we also encourage listers to edit the policy directly
>
> on the Jadili platform
>
> (http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy).
>
>
> Today we focus on the following areas:
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>
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> *Online Citizen Safety,
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> *Child Protection
>
> *Privacy issues
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> *Security business transactions (Info-Security)
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> *Security & Reliability of Critical ICT infrastructure
>
>
> The Background:
>
>
> The more we automate and rely on digital services, the more vulnerable
>
> we become as a  society to cybercrime and other threats facing the
>
> digital society.
>
>
> The regulator has a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the
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> industry (TESPOK) also has a CERT, the  Department  of Criminal
>
> Investigation & National Intelligence also have CERT. What is not
>
> clear is whether  there is a framework to have these teams working
>
> together and their capacity to counter a full-blown cyber attack
>
> against our digital national assets.
>
>
> Additionally, the tension between citizen privacy and national
>
> security, citizen privacy and business (profit) concerns remain
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> perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws.
>
> Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going
>
> online is non-existent.
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>
> What needs to be done around these issues?
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>
> Kindly submit your views.
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>
> Best Regards
>
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