<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Listers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Apologies for cross posting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">In the wake of a global scare on the security of consumer data, hacking incidences (the latest is closer to home where individuals were arrested when they threatened to release confidential NIC Bank customer information).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/-NIC-Bank-database-hacking/-/539550/2587108/-/fdi7i3z/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/-NIC-Bank-database-hacking/-/539550/2587108/-/fdi7i3z/-/index.html</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">The Obama administration has issued far reaching guidelines on this issue.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:448px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:TiemposText-Regular,'Tiempos Text Regular',Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">President Barack Obama wants companies to notify consumers within 30-days of a personal data breach. Despite a slew of pressing issues facing the administration and a potentially unsympathetic Republican-led congress, the White House today <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/12/fact-sheet-safeguarding-american-consumers-families" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(216,216,216);background-image:initial;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial">unveiled </a>a handful of legislative proposals aimed at safeguarding consumer privacy, continuing along a path established by its privacy and big data report published in May.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:448px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:TiemposText-Regular,'Tiempos Text Regular',Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The administration's Personal Data Notification and Protection Act is being pitched in part as beneficial to companies handling consumer data, since it provides a set of rules for data breaches that applies on a national level.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 25px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:448px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:TiemposText-Regular,'Tiempos Text Regular',Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;line-height:25px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Read on:-</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/obama-firms-notify-data-breach-30-days/296552/">http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/obama-firms-notify-data-breach-30-days/296552/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">I also picked an old article in the CIO Magazine about a Mass SMS Campaign by Safaricom sometime last year on behalf of the Deposit Protection Fund. See below:-</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.cio.co.ke/news/main-stories/we-did-not-share-consumer-data,-safaricom-says">http://www.cio.co.ke/news/main-stories/we-did-not-share-consumer-data,-safaricom-says</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">This is a good opportunity for both Govt, through policy making and security organs and the private sector to work together to create a solid framework that will enhance commerce, protect sensitive personal data and of course guard the country against external cyber-security aggression.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">Anyone on this list know of any such initiative? </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Ali
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