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-platform-is-vulnerable-to-money-laundering/

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@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..


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..

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On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:40 PM, Grace B via kictanet <kictanet@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@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/

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On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet <kictanet@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@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers

The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:-


Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..

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