[kictanet] [isoc_ke] All things Safaricom

Tue Mar 7 16:09:42 EAT 2017

Listers,

This article reminds me when I attended an event sometime back where
Vodafone were trying to launch M-pesa in SA and the CEO said "M-pesa would
only work where FS is not developed and a government willing to look the
other way"

Well here is a report that raises an issue what most of use have always
thought re AML.

https://qz.com/924977/us-state-dept-thinks-africas-leading-mobile-money-platform-is-vulnerable-to-money-laundering/

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
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> Grace
>
> I think Zuckerberg put it well when he said (albeit almost seven years
> ago) that people really don't expect privacy anymore..
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy
>
> I'm afraid that bird already flew the coop long time ago...
>
> The million dollar question now is how do we take our privacy
> back..wittingly in unwittingly we gave it away long time ago..
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> On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:40 PM, Grace B via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Is no one worried about one company being too present in many aspects of
> our Internet experience? If Facebook wifi becomes a big success, shall we
> be in the same dominance debates we are in at the moment?
>
> On 7 Mar 2017 12:59 a.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc at lists.my.co.ke>
> wrote:
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>> Alex
>>
>> No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product.
>>
>> https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/
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>> On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>> my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access
>> Facebook
>>
>> On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Listers
>>
>> The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details
>> on this:-
>>
>> Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet
>> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Facebook-takes-on-telcos-with-low-cost-Internet-in-Nairobi/539550-3839636-ask1wt/index.html>
>>
>> Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..
>>
>> Regards
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