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Re: [kictanet] Track, Capture, Kill: Communication Surveillance in Kenya
by Ali Hussein 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Moses I'm really not surprised. It would be folly for us to think there's no widespread surveillance going on the world over - Not after Wikileaks and Snowden. America, that country that is supposed to know better is at the vanguard of this new widespread and impunity minded surveillance. So what makes us think our Government will be immune to this virus spreading the world over? *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Mose Karanja via kictanet < kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > Privacy International just released a chilling report on how Kenya’s > National Security organs, and especially the Intelligence office, carries > out unregulated communication surveillance with the aid of > telecommunication companies and shares this with units of law enforcement > outside the legal procedures. > > ----- > > *Key Revelations:* > > - Communications surveillance is being carried out by Kenyan state > actors, essentially without oversight, outside of the procedures required > by Kenyan laws. Intercepted communications content and data are used to > facilitate gross human rights abuses - to spy on, profile, locate, track > and ultimately arrest, torture, kill or 'disappear' suspects. > - Intelligence gained by intercepting phone communications, primarily > by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), is regularly shared with units > of the police to carry out counter-terrorism operations, particularly the > GSU-Recce company and Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU). These police units > have well-documented records of abuses including torture and extrajudicial > killing > - Despite constitutional and other privacy protections, > telecommunications operators regularly hand over customer data to both > intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Sources who spoke with PI feel > that they cannot decline agencies’ requests. > - The NIS appears to have direct access to communication networks > across Kenya. Direct access means an actor has backdoor access the phone > communications that flow through service providers. In this case, it is > unlikely that the network operators had knowledge of the state's > interception. > - NIS officers use various techniques to access both call content and > call data records, including using mobile interception devices. Further > methods are documented in the report. > - Law enforcement agents are present within telecommunications > operators’ facilities with the providers’ knowledge. NIS are also > informally present in the telecommunication operators’ facilities, > apparently undercover, according to current and former telecommunications, > Communications Authority and NIS staff interviewed by Privacy > International. This investigation details both the 'above the board' and > informal practices. Agency and company responses to requests for comment by > Privacy International are included in the report. > - In advance of the August 2017 Presidential elections, the > Communications Authority has launched several disturbing initiatives, > including a project to monitor social media content, whose potential > capacities are discussed in this report. > > —— > > You can read the full report here: https://privacyinternational.org/ > reports > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ > > Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/ > mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com > > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform > for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and > regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT > sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. > > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors > online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, > share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. >

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Track, Capture, Kill: Communication Surveillance in Kenya
by Mose Karanja 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Privacy International just released a chilling report on how Kenya’s National Security organs, and especially the Intelligence office, carries out unregulated communication surveillance with the aid of telecommunication companies and shares this with units of law enforcement outside the legal procedures. ----- Key Revelations: Communications surveillance is being carried out by Kenyan state actors, essentially without oversight, outside of the procedures required by Kenyan laws. Intercepted communications content and data are used to facilitate gross human rights abuses - to spy on, profile, locate, track and ultimately arrest, torture, kill or 'disappear' suspects. Intelligence gained by intercepting phone communications, primarily by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), is regularly shared with units of the police to carry out counter-terrorism operations, particularly the GSU-Recce company and Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU). These police units have well-documented records of abuses including torture and extrajudicial killing Despite constitutional and other privacy protections, telecommunications operators regularly hand over customer data to both intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Sources who spoke with PI feel that they cannot decline agencies’ requests. The NIS appears to have direct access to communication networks across Kenya. Direct access means an actor has backdoor access the phone communications that flow through service providers. In this case, it is unlikely that the network operators had knowledge of the state's interception. NIS officers use various techniques to access both call content and call data records, including using mobile interception devices. Further methods are documented in the report. Law enforcement agents are present within telecommunications operators’ facilities with the providers’ knowledge. NIS are also informally present in the telecommunication operators’ facilities, apparently undercover, according to current and former telecommunications, Communications Authority and NIS staff interviewed by Privacy International. This investigation details both the 'above the board' and informal practices. Agency and company responses to requests for comment by Privacy International are included in the report. In advance of the August 2017 Presidential elections, the Communications Authority has launched several disturbing initiatives, including a project to monitor social media content, whose potential capacities are discussed in this report. —— You can read the full report here: https://privacyinternational.org/reports <https://privacyinternational.org/reports>

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Press Statement on Competition Study
by Alwala, Rachel 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Dear listers, For clarity, Please see the statement from CA on the Competition Study. Regards Rachel

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Fellowship Opportunity on information controls
by Mose Karanja 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hello listers. The Open Technology Fund is sending out its last call for applications (deadline on 19 March 2017). Fellows get to choose between 3, 6 or 12 months of research on information controls (topics like censorship, surveillance, repressive laws and narrative manipulation). For more on timelines, previous work by fellows and stipends, please visit https://www.opentech.fund/requests/icfp <https://www.opentech.fund/requests/icfp> CIPIT, based at Strathmore Law School, is a host organization, among many others across the globe. -Moses

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Regulator seems to have made up its mind
by Sidney Ochieng 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Telecoms regulator CA says will not implement proposal to break up Safaricom http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/539550-3849288-83vahdz/index.h… I thought that we would have some input on this but I guess not. Meanwhile has anyone other than a few special few even read this report? I'm feeling very left out of this process and its extremely frustrating.

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Re: [kictanet] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Public Comment on the Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study
by ceo 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Boss! I can see we are number 2! Regards, AbdallaOn Mar 11, 2017 9:36 PM, Bobs via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > > >> From: Yaovi Atohoun <yaovi.atohoun(a)icann.org> >> Date: March 11, 2017 at 11:05:15 AM GMT+3 >> To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> >> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Public Comment on the Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study >> Reply-To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> >> > ENGLISH: Please read more at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-03-11-en . The draft report will be presented on March 13, 2017 at 12h45 UTC > > Adobe Connect https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallc13 > English Audio (Low Bitrate) http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-en-lo.m3u > English Audio http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-en.m3u > > > > FRANCAIS: C’est un appel à commentaires https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-03-11-en . Il y aura l’interprétation en Français lors de la présentation de ce rapport le lundi 13 Mars de 12h45 a 14h UTC > > Adobe Connect https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallc13 > French Audio (Low Bitrate) http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-fr-lo.m3u Le lundi 13 mars de 12h45 à 14hUTC > French Audio http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-fr.m3u Le lundi 13 mars de 12h45 à 14hUTC > > > > Thanks/Merci > > -- > > Yaovi Atohoun > > Stakeholder Engagement & Operations Manager – Africa > > Tel. +229 66015649/ 97891228 / 65209067 > > www.icann.org

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Public Comment on the Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study
by Bobs 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> From: Yaovi Atohoun <yaovi.atohoun(a)icann.org> > Date: March 11, 2017 at 11:05:15 AM GMT+3 > To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Call for Public Comment on the Draft 2016 African Domain Name System Market Study > Reply-To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> > > ENGLISH: Please read more at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-03-11-en . The draft report will be presented on March 13, 2017 at 12h45 UTC > Adobe Connect https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallc13 > English Audio (Low Bitrate) http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-en-lo.m3u > English Audio http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-en.m3u > > FRANCAIS: C’est un appel à commentaires https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-03-11-en . Il y aura l’interprétation en Français lors de la présentation de ce rapport le lundi 13 Mars de 12h45 a 14h UTC > Adobe Connect https://participate.icann.org/cph58-hallc13 > French Audio (Low Bitrate) http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-fr-lo.m3u Le lundi 13 mars de 12h45 à 14hUTC > French Audio http://stream.icann.org:8000/cph58-hallc13-fr.m3u Le lundi 13 mars de 12h45 à 14hUTC > > Thanks/Merci > -- > Yaovi Atohoun > Stakeholder Engagement & Operations Manager – Africa > Tel. +229 66015649/ 97891228 / 65209067 > www.icann.org

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Society "Youth and the Internet" Survey and Community Forum
by Barrack Otieno 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang(a)isoc.org> Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:22 PM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Society "Youth and the Internet" Survey and Community Forum To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> Dear all, The Internet Society is holding a community Forum on Youth and the Internet on 16 March 2017 at 16:00 UTC to discuss how young people (ages 13-25) feel about the Internet including challenges and opportunities. I would like to invite young people on this list to complete our below “3 questions” Youth and the Internet Survey. For those who are less young, please share it with your respective youth communities. Here are the links to the survey: English: http://bit.ly/2mQ0k4k Français: http://bit.ly/2mlYBGp español: http://bit.ly/2n6vXr1 Português: http://bit.ly/2mGgIbf Thank you. Wishing you a great weekend. Best regards, Victor. --- Victor Ndonnang Chapter Development Manager, Africa & Middle East. Internet Society The Internet is for Everyone! http://www.internetsociety.org/ Skype ID: Ndonnang _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Re: [kictanet] [isoc_ke] All things Safaricom
by Erick Mwangi 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Listers, This article reminds me when I attended an event sometime back where Vodafone were trying to launch M-pesa in SA and the CEO said "M-pesa would only work where FS is not developed and a government willing to look the other way" Well here is a report that raises an issue what most of use have always thought re AML. https://qz.com/924977/us-state-dept-thinks-africas-leading-mobile-money-pla… E Njoroge Mwangi Technology| FINTECH | Big Data Cell +44 7539372742 Skype: Erick.mwangi On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet < kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > Grace > > I think Zuckerberg put it well when he said (albeit almost seven years > ago) that people really don't expect privacy anymore.. > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy > > I'm afraid that bird already flew the coop long time ago... > > The million dollar question now is how do we take our privacy > back..wittingly in unwittingly we gave it away long time ago.. > > *Ali Hussein* > *Principal* > *Hussein & Associates* > +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113> > > Twitter: @AliHKassim > > Skype: abu-jomo > > LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim > > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a > habit." ~ Aristotle > > > Sent from my iPad > > On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:40 PM, Grace B via kictanet < > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > > Is no one worried about one company being too present in many aspects of > our Internet experience? If Facebook wifi becomes a big success, shall we > be in the same dominance debates we are in at the moment? > > On 7 Mar 2017 12:59 a.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> > wrote: > >> Alex >> >> No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product. >> >> https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/ >> >> *Ali Hussein* >> *Principal* >> *Hussein & Associates* >> +254 0713 601113 <+254%20713%20601113> >> >> Twitter: @AliHKassim >> >> Skype: abu-jomo >> >> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim >> >> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a >> habit." ~ Aristotle >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet < >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: >> >> my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access >> Facebook >> >> On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet < >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: >> >> Listers >> >> The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details >> on this:- >> >> Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet >> <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Facebook-takes-on-telcos-with-…> >> >> Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love.. >> >> Regards >> >> *Ali Hussein* >> >> *Principal* >> >> *Hussein & Associates* >> >> >> >> Tel: +254 713 601113 >> >> Twitter: @AliHKassim >> >> Skype: abu-jomo >> >> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim >> <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> >> >> >> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, >> >> Chiromo Road, Westlands, >> >> Nairobi, Kenya. >> >> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely >> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the >> organizations that I work with. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet >> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ >> >> Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/m >> ailman/options/kictanet/info%40campusciti.com >> >> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform >> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and >> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT >> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. >> >> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors >> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, >> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do >> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> isoc mailing list >> isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc >> > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ > > Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/ > mailman/options/kictanet/info%40campusciti.com > > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform > for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and > regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT > sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. > > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors > online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, > share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. > > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ > > Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/ > mailman/options/kictanet/erick.mwangi%40gmail.com > > The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform > for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and > regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT > sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. > > KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors > online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, > share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do > not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. >

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Re: [kictanet] Ring of bank hackers busted - Daily Nation
by Mark Kipyegon 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Even with the collusion claimed in the article, the failure of controls that should prevent unauthorised physical and remote access to systems is quite troubling. On 09/03/2017 06:18, kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote: > > Today we get a glimpse of the magnitude of cyber crime in the country. > > Kenya Revenue Authority, several blue-chip banks, a parastatal and a supermarket chain are some of the institutions penetrated by an international cybercrime syndicate that took off with hundreds of millions of shillings ? before they were all seized on Monday and Tuesday. > > Read on:- > > http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Police-bust-ring-of-hackers/1056-3842558-11h7q… > >

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