[kictanet] Companies fight to retain hold on customers’ data Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data

[S.M. Muraya]

Engineer,

Please forgive the innumerable links in this response.

Foreign firms which cannot invest + trust in local talent have no business
being here. State officials who have sold out to foreign firms have nothing
to show at the NSE. Apart from Safaricom, which technology firm has listed
since 2008? If local/genuine IT firms were winning go.ke contracts would
they not have to list (IPO) to fund expansion?

Why are Africans expected to be so mediocre so as not to require or
prioritize data localization?

Factoring Kenya is part of a war zone, is data localization/latency
(especially for emergency services) negotiable?

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001299117/police-alert-al-shabaab-planning-major-attack-along-kenya-somalia-border

https://ntv.nation.co.ke/news/2720124-4804978-yxgoj6/index.html

Terror’s highway: 115km highway rendered impassable by Al Shabaab militants

https://www.crn.com.au/news/global-data-warehouse-snowflake-expands-reach-with-sydney-deployment-473217

He added that Australia had become a major market for cloud providers,
citing Microsoft and Amazon Web Services' local data centres, adding that
data sovereignty and latency are of top priority.

"By providing an Australian deployment, Snowflake enables customers with
Australian data to keep that information close to home,” Muglia added.
“They now have more control over their data and how they comply with
Australian data protection regulations."

https://www.ukfast.co.uk/emergency-services.html

Our data centres are approved as Police Assured Server Facilities (PASF)
with connectivity to the private networks used by all the emergency
services including HSCN, PSN, PSN for Policing and the Internet, from a
full data centre colocation move to trialling the latest technologies to
help plan and respond to emergencies.

With services already being supplied to a number of forces including the
Met Police and the National Crime Agency (NCA) our credibility to deliver
the benefits of cloud services to the required standards is well
established.

https://www.ukfast.co.uk/press-releases/cabinet-office-renews-emergency-response-contract-with-ukfast.html

Following an open tender competition through the Digital Marketplace, the
Cabinet Office has signed a renewed contract with UKFast’s public sector
department for the delivery of a private cloud platform for
ResilienceDirect, which supports effective response to incidents like
natural disasters, terror attacks and power outages.

The secure platform delivers a suite of capabilities to prepare, exercise,
respond and recover, supporting a co-ordinated and efficient response
linking the national tier Government Departments COBR and the local
emergency services working collaboratively with local councils, utility
providers and many other sectors.

The British hosting firm won the initial two-year contact in 2016 and the
extension gives the Cabinet Office access to UKFast’s industry leading
government hosting services and round-the-clock support for another year,
with the option of a further year’s extension.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 6:23 PM John Kariuki via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>
> Grace, listers.
> That approach will ultimately certainly fail because Data Protection is
> not just a local matter. It is an international matter whose underlying
> theme is privacy. The subject of privacy has been substantially ventilated
> by UN, EU and even AU. The legal basis is quite solid and is unlikely to be
> shaken by private interests. In any case, even if a weak law is passed, it
> will certainly fail the "Adequacy Test" and will quickly be amended.
>
> John Kariuki.
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>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:59, Grace Githaiga via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Major firms have opposed proposals to limit how they use personal data
> from millions of Kenyans, threatening the implementation of robust data
> protection laws.
>
> The companies, including multinationals want unfettered access to the data
> they have on their customers, some of which may have been collected without
> users’ knowledge.
> Read more at:
> https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Githaiga, Grace
>
>
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