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

Thu Jun 30 13:14:16 EAT 2016

>From the Ministry perspective I think their objective is quite clear on
this - this is an extract of section 7.5; I have bolded out developing
legislation which is a process and road-map they intend to take.

7.5
*Data Protection*
The Government will *develop data protection legislation* that ensures the
protection of the
confidentiality and integrity of citizens’ information. The legislation
shall provide for collection, use,
retention, security and disclosure of such information, including
disclosure to law enforcement
agencies.

I would not comment on Google because they operate in different
Geographical boundaries with different legislations.

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:-
>
>
> 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
>
>
> In relation to this discussion we would love to have a comment from the
> Ministry and Google.
>
> *Ali Hussein*
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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:
>
> 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,
>
> CA Perhaps building onto the already existing units in terms of resources
>
> and capacity may be more sustainable
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
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> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>
> 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:
>
>
>
> *Online Citizen Safety,
>
> *Child Protection
>
> *Privacy issues
>
> *Security business transactions (Info-Security)
>
> *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
>
> 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
>
> perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws.
>
> Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going
>
> online is non-existent.
>
>
> What needs to be done around these issues?
>
>
> Kindly submit your views.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
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