Ayub,

thank you, for your comment:-) ....I wish someone would answer that question....

bottom line, we are awesome innovaters, but what happens when crime is committed, do we want to wait till then, if they have not taken place?

Still on the SIM card registration, there is no law that binds me to Register HURAY!

Secondly, does this registration continue till after 30th? a case and scenario....someone is out of the country, they have been for the last month and will be back after 30th July...what happens to them? they get disconnected?then what?

Kind Regards,

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ayub Gitonga <ayub.gitonga@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Judy,
When you brought up this issue, It quickly reminds me of a policy document which I read published by the GOK way back in 2004, i.e. NATIONAL INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) POLICY which recognized these emerging issues but the gava has lagged behind in put in place solutions (Laws) can safeguard us against these threats and this in effect means the this policy document is no longer a living doc.

The question remains who is responsible... Of course I believe the min of Information & Communication is the line Min... are they overwhelmed or is it our legislators who are too busy increasing their salaries instead of passing Laws...

Thanks
Ayub

On 13 July 2010 06:47, Judy Okite <judyokite@gmail.com> wrote:

Good Morning,

As we near, closing these discussions we, feel free to contribute to the former threads by clicking on the correct subject/title.

Today we continue with ,

a)      E-crime- situation in Kenya
b)      E- Voting- where Kenya is @

And today we add

c)   c) Online privacy and data security

i)      Sim card registration- on the 21^st June 2010 the government through CCK(Communication Commission of Kenya) declared it mandatory for all mobile users to register their Sim cards

More info: http://www.cck.go.ke/news/2010/news_21june2010.html

“The exercise is aimed at safeguarding the public against acts of insecurity, including the wide spread threats posed by terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, fraud, hate messages, and incitement that are now wide spread throughout the world, “said the Minister for Information and Communication.

Currently we have 18million (I stand to be corrected ) mobile users in Kenya, In these forms, one has to give their residential area , their identity card number, their birth information etc… That is a whole lot of data on Kenyans… in short , a grand database! From yesterday’s discussions we saw that currently we have no LAW to guard this database.

Q. What will stop the Authority from using my details wrongly?

Q. What happens if I don’t register by 31^st of July? I will be disconnected? Under what LAW?

ii) When I send a SMS to 3007 with an ID card number, it returns with voter details, full names, place of voting and voter card number of the ID card holder, however,

1, the system put in place, does not verify in any way that it’s the real owner of the ID card, that has sent this query?

a)      Can this data be manipulated? Then what?

A question, on top of my head, with all these ongoing, what creates demand for LAW?(if there is anything, like that)

Your queries, comments, inputs, corrections are welcome!

Kind Regards,

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