[kictanet] Data Protection and Privacy: Kenya’s communications authority to monitor private talk and texts during poll

[Ali Hussein]

I'm curious

Was this Kshs. 2 billion budgeted for? Or did the CA pull a Houdini from the USF fund? 

You know guys this is just simply ridiculous. We have swaths of Kenya that have zero connectivity but no..the CA would rather spend Kshs 2 billion to snoop on less than 20% of Kenyans on social media? Or is this equipment also going to snoop on our WhatsApp messages too? 

Yaani guys haven't read the Constitution wakaitafakari? The Chickens will come home to roost one day..

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> On 13 Jan 2017, at 5:02 PM, June Tessy via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Listers, 
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> And I quote, 'We have spent Sh1.1 billion on a spectrum monitoring system that will help us monitor unauthorised broadcasts coming from rural areas of the country," he said. 
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> "We have also spent around Sh600 million on a social media monitoring system and Sh400 million on  a device management system that will help us closely monitor mobile phones and the activities around them," said Wangusi
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> Read more at: <https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000229727/communications-authority-to-monitor-private-talk-and-texts-during-poll> as well as <http://www.techweez.com/2017/01/13/ca-social-media-monitoring-election-report/> 
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