Hi Judy,<div>When you brought up this issue, It quickly reminds me of a policy document which I read published by the GOK way back in 2004, i.e. NATIONAL INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) POLICY which recognized these emerging issues but the gava has lagged behind in put in place solutions (Laws) can safeguard us against these threats and this in effect means the this policy document is no longer a living doc. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The question remains who is responsible... Of course I believe the min of Information & Communication is the line Min... are they overwhelmed or is it our legislators who are too busy increasing their salaries instead of passing Laws...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div> Ayub<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 July 2010 06:47, Judy Okite <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:judyokite@gmail.com">judyokite@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p class="MsoNormal">Good Morning,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As we near, closing these discussions we, feel free to
contribute to the former threads by clicking on the correct subject/title.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today we continue with , </p>
<p></p><ul><li><span><span>a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>E-crime- situation in Kenya</li><li><span><span>b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>E- Voting- where Kenya is @</li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">And today we add </p>
<p><span><span>c)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> c) </span></span></span>Online privacy and data security</p>
<p> i<span><span>)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Sim card registration- <span> </span>on the 21<sup>st</sup> June 2010 the
government through <span> </span>CCK(Communication
Commission of Kenya) declared it mandatory for all mobile users to register
their Sim cards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">More info: <a href="http://www.cck.go.ke/news/2010/news_21june2010.html" target="_blank">http://www.cck.go.ke/news/2010/news_21june2010.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span><span style="color:#333333">“The exercise is aimed at safeguarding the public against
acts of insecurity, including the wide spread threats posed by terrorism, drug
trafficking, money laundering, extortion, fraud, hate messages, and incitement
that are now wide spread throughout the world, “said the Minister for
Information and Communication.</span></span><span><span style="color:#333333"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#333333">Currently
we have 18million (I stand to be corrected ) mobile users in Kenya, In these
forms, one has to give their residential area , their identity card number,
their birth information etc… That is a whole lot of data on Kenyans… in short ,
a grand database! From yesterday’s discussions we saw that currently we have no
LAW<span> </span>to guard this database.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span><span style="color:#333333">Q. What will stop the Authority from using my details
wrongly?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#333333">Q.
What happens if I don’t register by 31<sup>st</sup> of July? I will be
disconnected? Under what LAW?</span></span></p>
<p><span><span style="color:#333333"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333"><br>
</span>ii) When I send a SMS to 3007 with an ID card number, it returns with
voter details, full names, place of voting and voter card number of the ID card
holder, however,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1, the system put in place, does not verify in any way that
it’s the real owner of the ID card, that has sent this query?</p>
<p><span><span>a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Can this data be manipulated? Then what?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A question, on top of my head, with all these ongoing, what
creates demand for LAW?(if there is anything, like that)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">Your queries, comments, inputs,
corrections are welcome!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">Kind Regards,</p><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br>“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” Kofi Annan<br>
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