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

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 ...

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 ...

Court documents suggest the information was nearly sold to a sports betting company before the plot was uncovered.

Across Kenya, online sexual exploitation and abuse (OSEA) is escalating rapidly, with predators exploiting digital ...

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 ...

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

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 is poised to become a regional leader in the regulation of virtual assets with the enactment of the Virtual Asset ...

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 ...

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 ...