Kenya

Report and Analysis

Long Read

Exclusion by design: how national ID systems make social protection inaccessible to vulnerable populations

Governments around the world are increasingly making registration in national ID systems mandatory for populations to access social benefits, healthcare services, and other forms of state support. By virtue of their design, these systems inevitably exclude certain population groups from obtaining an ID and hence from accessing essential resources to which they are entitled.

Report

Coalition Perception Survey- English_Cover

Defenders Coalition: Impact of Communication Surveillance on HRDs in Kenya

The Defenders Coalition has undertaken a survey of HRDs across Kenya to understand their level of exposure and their perception of communication surveillance.

Case Study

…it helps to protect our free elections

Everyone has the right to take part in their country’s political affairs and equal access to public service. Governments should be voted for regularly.

News

27th January 2022

Data Protection Impact Assessments and ID systems: the 2021 Kenyan ruling on Huduma Namba

6th February 2020

Why the Huduma Namba ruling matters for the future of digital ID, and not just in Kenya

2nd April 2019

Civil society achieves change, but risks still remain in Kenya's new biometric ID system

7th August 2018

A Very Secret Ballot: A Case Study on the Electoral Process in Kenya

11th July 2018

Lone Voices Leading the Way: How Civil Society in Africa is Successfully Countering Government Narratives on Cyber Security

7th March 2018

A day in the life of Mercy, a 28-year-old cis woman living in Nairobi

Examples of Abuse

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Data labellers build AI in secret

Behind every powerful AI system are huge numbers of people labelling and clarifying data to train it, contracted by companies like Remotasks, a subsidiary of Silicon Valley-based data vendor Scale AI, whose customers include the US military and OpenAI. Often the workers, who are assigned tasks they

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Analysis of Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019

Summary

This is a legal analysis of Kenya’s Data Protection Act which was adopted in November 2019.