[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

Ali Hussein ali at hussein.me.ke
Tue Oct 16 20:24:28 EAT 2018 

Lilian

Greetings. I would be remise in my duty as a Kenyan not to raise something important that happened today and I felt really sad as a Kenyan that something like this can happen at the ICT Authority. Especially when we are in the middle of conversations around data protection. 

An email shot was sent informing people on how to pay for the event. The problem with this email is that it exposed tens of emails. My humble suggestion is that this could have been done by using best practice of not exposing emails to recipients by:-

1. Either using the BCC functionality 
2. Or use one of the email applications like mail chimp

This may seem like a trivial issue but it’s not. I’m really hoping that ICT Authority will go back to using mail chimp or something similar like it used to before.

Regards 

Ali Hussein
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> On 16 Oct 2018, at 9:27 AM, Lilian Kimeto via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Dear Listers,
> The conversation around data protection will feature at Connected Summit.
> 
> Please plan to be there by registering on www.connected.go.ke
> 
> Regards,
> Lilian Kimeto
> The ICT Authority
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 09:17 Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Muraya,
>> 
>> The onus is on the Kenyan ICT Community to ensure this data protection conversation does not become elitist. It may just stiffle innovation which is not what we want. We have thousands of mobile money agents who basically fall under SME's, this are the guys who will be affected the most. That said, we have to start somewhere.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:17 S.M. Muraya via kictanet, <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>> 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. 
>>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>>>> 
>>>> 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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