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<br><div><div>On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:22 PM, <a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br>Robert,<br>We must protect the privacy of Kenyans especially those who do not want<br>their mobile number in the public domain. Attached see the sections of<br>the Communications Ammendment Act and the regulations. It is brief and<br>you can read in one minute.<br><br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Just to reiterate that mobile is the new mass media, it is shocking how no<br>one is actually raising an issue about IEBC's blatant waste of money,<br>exactly what is the objective of printing information about the pooling<br>stations in the newspaper?<br><br>IEBC has over the past few days been publishing in the former mass media<br>a.k.a. newspapers a list of the registered pooling stations, each run has<br>taken up over 12 full pages at 320,000/- per page that adds up to 3.84<br>million x 3 newspapers per day = 11.52 million and this has been going on<br>for 3 days = 34.56 million. <br><br><br>This confirms that expenses fill the budget allocated in the same way as<br>work fills the time allocated, from this wasteful spending it is clear<br>that we would have had the same kind of election with a 10th of the budget<br>allocated.<br><br><br>Yet the same IEBC charges me 10/- to check the same information using<br>their SMS service, if this is the cost of democracy then we are doomed to<br>poverty. <br><br>Regards<br><br><br>PS. What exactly was the ICT strategy launch all about?<br><br> <br>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br><br>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br><br><br>________________________________<br> From: Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br>To: robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 11:59<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised<br><br><br>+1 Robert<br><br><br>Ali<br>Hussein<br>CEO, 3mice interactive media ltd<br>Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd<br><br> <br>Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>Skype: abu-jomo<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassimBlog:">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassimBlog:</a> <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com">www.alyhussein.com</a><br><br><br>On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:51 AM, robert yawe <<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>wrote:<br><br>Hi Harry,<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Not being a lawyer please indulge my ignorance, when you get an ID card<br>it is that the public can confirm who you say you are therefore it is not<br>a private but a public record.<br><br>When you register as a voter you are going to elect public office bearers<br>therefore your voter registration information is public information.<br><br>I hear you on the issue of getting targeted but which is the greater evil<br>the likelihood of you getting evicted or the likelihood of an election<br>being compromised?<br><br>My take is that the voter, SIM card, ID, passport, prison, land ownership<br>and motor vehicle information need to be made publicly available for<br>scrutiny by all and sundry with a means to monitor who has accessed the<br>data (IPv4). All the data I have mentioned is available to a select few<br>which means that the<br></blockquote> playing field is therefore uneven. <br><blockquote type="cite"><br>With a select few having access to the data is more harmful especially<br>since there is no way of any of us knowing who they are or what is their<br>agenda. It truly pains me when a nation with such great minds at times<br>like this reduce themselves to rock painters.<br><br>In the run up to the last censors we ran what we called the "tribe Kenya"<br>campaign which resulted in the ministry of planning being forced to<br>define a new tribe called Kenya, whose code is 722, for those who wanted<br>to respond to the tribe question as "Kenya" and not other. In addition<br>the training materials for the enumerators where changed to indicated<br>that no one should be forced to provide a specific tribe and neither<br>where they to make any assumptions based on name.<br><br>After the results where released it was recorded that 612,000 households<br>across the country are members of the tribe "kenya". If I had a way of<br>contacting this<br></blockquote> fellow tribes men/women of mine then we would be in a better position to<br>plan our development and representation, which is one of the reasons that<br>I am an advocate of making this data public.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>In closing, we keep questioning the results of the various opinion polls<br>done by a myriad of organisations with all of us raising issues on sample<br>distribution, ethnicity, gender and the like and more critically are they<br>registered voters. This is a very simple issue to solve if the voter<br>register was publicly available and merged with the SIM register, all we<br>would ask you to do is respond to an electronic opinion poll using your<br>mobile phone. The results could then be tallied and a comprehensive<br>report provided that would answer many of the current contentious issues.<br><br><br>Regards<br><br> <br>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi,<br></blockquote> 00200<br><blockquote type="cite">Kenya<br><br><br>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br><br><br>________________________________<br>From: Harry Karanja <<a href="mailto:kkairo@gmail.com">kkairo@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:35<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised<br><br><br><br>On interrogation of legislation I've actually found that the Kenya<br>Communication (Amendment) Act imposed stiff penalties for unauthorized<br>access of data. So whether it came from retail agents or telcos (which is<br>highly improbable) this MP is not supposed to have my data. I'd also<br>discount the idea of cell broadcasting - which to the best of my<br>knowledge had not been activated in Kenya for commercial use. The SMS<br>originated from a UK number.<br><br><br>What is indisputable is that the aspiring MP accessed my personal data<br>without authorization. The next challenge is who should be held<br>accountable and how do I do this?  As mentioned earlier, targeted<br>campaigning or marketing is only one use of this data - but what if<br>someone based on my surname surmises that I do not fit into the electoral<br>map, will there be another form of targeting to evict me from that<br>constituency? (Here lies the futility of SIM registration as these SMS<br>can easily be sent from UK or India)<br><br><br>The fears I have are real, for its happened before, and as most on this<br>list can attest, technology has the power to make this process more<br>efficient.<br><br>Regards, <br>Harry Karanja<br><br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Edith Adera <<a href="mailto:eadera@idrc.ca">eadera@idrc.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br><br>Harry,<br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>Indeed the sources are many as others have said. Do we have a data<br>protection law (and FOI law) in place? Or the 10th parliament left<br>âhurriedlyâ without enacting it?<br> <br>The scenarios of how an individual voter can be targeted are many and<br>scary, to say the least.<br> <br>Edith<br> <br>From:kictanet<br>[mailto:kictanet-<a href="mailto:bounces+eadera=idrc.ca@lists.kictanet.or.ke">bounces+eadera=idrc.ca@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] On Behalf<br>Of Harry Karanja<br>Sent: February 10, 2013 10:44 PM<br>To: Edith Adera<br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>Subject: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised<br> <br>Listers,<br> <br>This morning I received the oddest message. Through a bulk sms provider,<br>one of the aspirants for MP in my constituency sent me an SMS appealing<br>me to vote for him in the upcoming elections? Now I say odd because to<br>the best of my knowledge I have never communicated to this politician my<br>number and my constituency. In fact the only person I have ever given<br>this dual information is the IEBC during voter registration. <br> <br>Which begs the question, could IEBC or its registration clerks be making<br>voter registers available to politicians for consideration or otherwise?<br>I'm also curious if this is an isolated event or its happening<br>elsewhere?<br> <br>Now I don't need to emphasize on the very serious implications if<br>politicians are in possession of such specific data on the electorate. I<br>previously blogged<br>(<a href="http://www.startupkenya.info/2010/08/chopping-up-big-green-giant-safaricom.html">http://www.startupkenya.info/2010/08/chopping-up-big-green-giant-safaricom.html</a>) on<br>the dangers of telcos in possession of too much personal data, but it is<br>nothing compared to politicians with this data especially in a country<br>that has experienced deadly post election violence. <br> <br>I'm curious what measures IEBC has in place for the protection of our<br>personal information and if my experience this morning portends the<br>compromise of all future governmently held e-data?<br><br>Regards, <br>Harry Karanja<br> <br>Sent from my iPad<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at<br>https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/robertyawe%40yahoo.co.uk<br><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform<br>for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and<br>regulation. 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