<div dir="ltr"><div>Morning,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Ephraim.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span lang="en-GB">Dear
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 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Centre
for Intellectual Property and Information Technology</b></span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font 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
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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 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
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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" size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><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/<wbr>docs/privacy-and-data-<wbr>protection-policy-and-bill-,<wbr>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/<wbr>docs/the-data-protection-bill,<wbr>-2018-ch9IKrCm</a></font></p>
<p class="m_8706583237387998195western" style="margin-right:0.39in;margin-bottom:0in;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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confirm your availability at your earliest convenience to
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serif" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:ephraim@article19.org" target="_blank"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB">ephraim@article19.org</span></font></a></u></span></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#00000a"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font></font>
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<p class="m_8706583237387998195western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" 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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<p class="m_8706583237387998195western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span lang="en-GB">We
look forward to your participation.</span></font></p>
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<p class="m_8706583237387998195western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span lang="en-GB">Best
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