This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The regulation builds on Kenya’s 2019 Data Protection Act, and ...

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has acknowledged media reports suggesting that the Safaricom-backed ...

Startups processing personal data in Kenya are among the entities required to register with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), as the East African country implements a law ...

Kenya had the opportunity to take notes while observing the western countries grapple with issues on data protection, but that did not happen. Kenya, like most African countries, borrows a lot from ...

Kenya's Ministry of the Interior suspended the operations of Worldcoin, the identity crypto protocol co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman, as the country's financial, security and data protection ...

The state now relies on data surveillance to detect, prevent, and neutralise risks, but that technology must be used cautiously and in line with the constitution.

Kenya’s parliament has passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill, now awaiting President William Ruto’s approval to take effect.

In an age defined by digital footprints and instant sharing, schools have emerged as both centres of learning and nodes in a vast web of data collection and dissemination. Yet, even as they champion ...

Nigeria and Meta look set to settle their data protection dispute. Both parties informed a court in Abuja that they were at an “advanced” stage of negotiations to resolve a lawsuit that saw Nigeria’s ...