<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>All </div><div><br></div><div>In relation to this, I discovered today that a lot of the privacy issues are allegedly being violated by a certain global brand. </div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Google, could have a record of everything you have said around it for years, and you can listen to it yourself.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have around its products.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read on:-</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-and-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-and-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">In relation to this discussion we would love to have a comment from the Ministry and Google. </p><br><div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 30 Jun 2016, at 12:52 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Great thanks Sam,</span><br><span></span><br><span>We will collate all the comments and forwad them to the Ministry.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thank you</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best Regards</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 6/30/16, Sam Oduor <<a href="mailto:sam.oduor@gmail.com">sam.oduor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi Barrack</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>A great comment has been posted on the Jadii Platform</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>June Tessy - a day ago Do we really need another 'specialized' agency yet</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>there are already existing units in Government and Regulators that are</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mandated to deal with these like the National Intelligence Service, ICTA,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>CA Perhaps building onto the already existing units in terms of resources</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and capacity may be more sustainable</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Listers,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Many thanks to those who contribued to day 6 discussions. The thread</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>is still open, we also encourage listers to edit the policy directly</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>on the Jadili platform</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>(<a href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy</a>).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Today we focus on the following areas:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Online Citizen Safety,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Child Protection</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Privacy issues</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Security business transactions (Info-Security)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Security & Reliability of Critical ICT infrastructure</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Background:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The more we automate and rely on digital services, the more vulnerable</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>we become as a society to cybercrime and other threats facing the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>digital society.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The regulator has a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>industry (TESPOK) also has a CERT, the Department of Criminal</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Investigation & National Intelligence also have CERT. What is not</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>clear is whether there is a framework to have these teams working</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>together and their capacity to counter a full-blown cyber attack</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>against our digital national assets.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Additionally, the tension between citizen privacy and national</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>security, citizen privacy and business (profit) concerns remain</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>perhaps due to lack of Data Protection, eTransaction and other laws.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Finally, special protection for vulnerable groups (children) going</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>online is non-existent.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>What needs to be done around these issues?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kindly submit your views.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Best Regards</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Barrack O. 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