Hello Listers,

As you are aware, personal data has become an extremely vital economic and governance resource in the contemporary information age. Vast amounts of personal data of Kenyans is collected, processed, shared and exploited by public organisations, private entities and business corporations locally and globally on a daily basis.

In Kenya, this has necessitated regulation of the collection and management of personal data by organisations and corporations, resulting in the enactment of the Data Protection Act ... corporations and organisations have to, inevitably, develop legally sound and comprehensive data protection and usage policies and statements to guide their staff, agents, assignees and licensees on the acceptable data management practices in order to avoid legal liability.

For further details, download my brief commentary at: http://www.lesinkonjoroge.com/New-Data-Protection-Law-Necessitates-Compliance-Policies-in-Organisations.html  

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Dr. Tom Kabau
PhD (University of Hong Kong), LLM and LLB (University of Nairobi)
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Law, Science and Technology Department
School of Law
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Nairobi
Cell Phone: +254 721 628646 / +254 735 070312

Advocate and Legal Consultant 
Lesinko, Njoroge & Gathogo Advocates