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            partner ,</span></font> </p>
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      <p> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span lang="en-GB">Greetings
            from ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa.</span></font> </p>
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      <p> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">ARTICLE
              19 in partnership with the </span></font></font><font
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            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Centre
                for Intellectual Property and Information Technology</b></span></font></font><font
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            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">
              Law (</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman,
          Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>CIPIT</b></span></font></font><font
          face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">-
              Strathmore University Law School) and Kenya ICT Action
              Network
              (KICTANET) seek to convene a one day Data Protection
              Dialogue Forum
              from </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman,
          Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>8</b></span></font></font><font
          face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>am
                – 5:30pm</b></span></font></font><font face="Times New
          Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size:
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              on </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman,
          Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
            size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Thursday
                  23 August, 2018). </b></i></span></font></font><font
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      <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">While,
          t<span lang="en-GB">he
            Constitution of Kenya, 2010 guarantees freedom of expression
            and the
            right to privacy, under Article 31 and 33; Kenya lacks a
            legally
            binding comprehensive data protection framework while also
            retaining
            laws which are broad and can be used to infringe on privacy
            on
            citizen data.</span></font></p>
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      <p> <font style="font-size: 12pt" face="Times New Roman, Times,
          serif" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">The
            lack of a comprehensive data protection law and existence of
            laws
            that can be broadly interpreted to allow for free collection
            of
            personal data, storage, usage, and dissemination to other
            parties has
            created a situation where citizens are not notified whenever
            their
            data is collected and do not have remedies whenever their
            data is
            breached on unnecessarily retained by both public and
            private actors.</span></font></p>
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      <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">We
            note that the ICT committees of the Senate led by Hon Gideon
            Moi has
            drafted a Data Protection Bill 2018 and similarly, the
            Ministry of
            ICT Taskforce on the Development of the Policy and
            Regulatory
            Framework for Privacy and Data Protection in Kenya, chaired
            by
            Communications Authority’s Mercy Wanjau has developed a
            Policy and
            a draft Data Protection Bill aimed at a Regulatory Framework
            for
            Privacy and Data Protection in Kenya and to fill this gap.</span></font></font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font
          size="3">Please </font></font><font face="Times New Roman,
        Times, serif">find below the links to the Data Protection Policy
        and Ministry Bill and the Senate Bill.</font></p>
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      <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/privacy-and-data-protection-policy-and-bill-,2018"
            target="_blank">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/privacy-and-data-protection-policy-and-bill-,2018</a></font></p>
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    <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
href="http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-data-protection-bill,-2018-ch9IKrCm"
          target="_blank">http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-data-protection-bill,-2018-ch9IKrCm</a></font></p>
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      line-height: 100%"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">It
        is with this in mind that
        the 3 partner organizations and will be meeting multiple data
        protection experts, <font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
            lang="en-GB">lawyers,
            academia/ data scientists, CSOs, journalists and bloggers</span></font>
        to collate recommendations for policy reform on <font
          color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              lang="en-GB">from
            </span></font></font><font color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>8</b></span></font></font><font
          color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              lang="en-GB"><b>am
                – 5:30pm</b></span></font></font><font color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">
              on </span></font></font><font color="#00000a"><font
            style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Thursday
                  23 August, 2018)</b></i></span></font></font><font
          color="#00000a"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              lang="en-GB">
              at Strathmore Law School.</span></font></font></font></p>
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          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">Kindly
            confirm your availability at your earliest convenience to
          </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times,
        serif" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
              href="mailto:ephraim@article19.org"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">ephraim@article19.org</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
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      lang="en-GB"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Please
        note that even though you might not be able to participate
        physically, you can nominate a representative or comment on this
        bills and Policy via the links above. <br>
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          look forward to your participation.</span></font></p>
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