[kictanet] IEBC 2017 REGISTER OF VOTERS - data protection/privacy law

Thu Jul 20 18:36:17 EAT 2017

@Mulwa,
Partial Voter ID wont help.
The major reason people (esp. political parties) want the voter register is to do analytics/audits of the same- with the presumption that the voter register is tainted.  Partial IDs would not be useful in such an exercise, eg when searching for duplicate, fake or underaged IDs.
On the other hand,full disclosure exposes citizen data  to potential data abuse.
This is where the Data Protection Act would have been useful in as far as providing a framework of use. It would balance out these two conflicting requirements that protects everyones interests.  The Act would for example allow for conditional access - i.e with appropriate penalties in the event of abuse or exposure.
At the moment supermarkets, banks, hospital, universities, operators, etc can abuse your private information but then...so what?
walu

      From: Patrick Mulwa via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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Guys, the USA is facing the same issue where thousands of voters are removing themselves from state voter rolls, prompted by fears that their information will be revealed by President Donald Trump’s vote fraud commission.At least 44 of the 50 states have refused requests by the committee to hand over data. However, this is more  POLITICAL as it is seen by many as an attempt by Trump to justify why he lost the popular vote.

Maybe @IEBCKenya might consider revealing PARTIAL names, ID number, and location. I want to stress the word PARTIAL here. A good example is a bank where they present to you a few letters of your phone number or your visa/MasterCard and ask you to fill them in to verify that an account is yours. 

Personally, I believe partial voter data might be the way to go here.
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Douglas Gichuki via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Walubengo,
Article 31 is a general principle of the constitution that while sufficient to anchor privacy as a general constitutional right does not address offer the mechanics of operationalising privacy. We need to move on a responsive ACT asap. 
Regards,
On Jul 20, 2017 4:45 PM, "Walubengo J via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote:

I have been reliably informed that Kenya actually has a law on data protection. The super-law, the Constitution of Kenya says in article 31 as follows:
>>>>> 

31. Every person has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have—(a) their person, home or property searched;(b) their possessions seized;(c) information relating to their family or private affairs unnecessarily required or revealed; or(d) the privacy of their communications infringed.    

>>>
I therefore rephrase my earlier statement to claimed that we do not have a law, and say theat we do not have an "Act" on Data Protection/Privacy.
Maybe IEBC can use the provisions in article 31 in the meantime.
walu.
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True that Tony.
But here is the news - Kenya has NO data protection law or policy.
So anything flows and goes.
walu.

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On the other hand, I do not want **anyone** listing my name and ID
number for anyone to scrape and mis-use.

Revealing personal information is **not** 'transparency' - it's a
breach of data privacy!

Cheers,
Tony

On 19/07/2017, Patrick Mulwa via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote:
> We still have a long way to go with regards to Transparency @IEBCKenya
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> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:16 PM, John Kieti via kictanet <
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>> Found it laughable :)
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>>> [image: Inline image 1]      What an ICT lie with this IEBC to put a
>>> link for access to a register and then have STATISTICS ON REGISTERED
>>> VOTERS/  DISTRIBUTION OF REGISTERED VOTERS.
>>> It is so dishonest a move by such a Credible body especially to people
>>> in
>>> ICT.
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