<head></head><body>Listers,<div><div>This is very very dicey...</div><div>Collecting data on our Mpesa Transactions is akin to KRA collecting data on our Bank Transactions.</div><div><br></div><div>That is simply not allowed en'masse, unless by a court order. Put it this way, there's no way KRA can get a data feed from *all* the banks on our financial transactions and hence this extends to MPesa et.al</div><div><br></div><div>Why? If you have my entire financial records then you know just about *everything* about me such as where I am at any one time, where I eat, where I take my kids to school, friends I associate with, girlfriends, boyfriends, medical history etc</div><div><br></div><div>Basically *everything* that violates my rights to privacy and that's why there is a process that has to be followed to get such information.</div><br><!-- <signature> -->Sent from <a href="https://nylas.com/n1?ref=n1">Nylas N1</a>, the extensible, open source mail client.<br><!-- </signature> --></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On May 10 2016, at 2:10 pm, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.6px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">Listers, </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.6px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">KRA is targeting mobile money as part of the agency’s financial data gathering scheme that is meant to monitor businesses and individuals who are not paying their fair share of taxes.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.6px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">People familiar with the plan said the taxman is at an advanced stage of rolling out a number crunching mechanism that will use electronic data to suggest incomes of those using mobile money to pay bills and make purchases.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15.6px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">Full article here: <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/KRA-radical-plan-to-catch-tax-cheats/-/996/3196496/-/brq96h/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/KRA-radical-plan-to-catch-tax-cheats/-/996/3196496/-/brq96h/-/index.html</a></span></p></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Grace L.N. Mutung'u <br>Nairobi Kenya<br>Skype: gracebomu<br>Twitter: @Bomu<br><br><<a href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu" target="_blank">http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu</a>></div><div><br></div><div>PGP ID : 0x33A3450F<br><br></div></div></div>
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