Ngigi

The whole issue comes under:-

1. Third Party liability - if google hosts the site. Which is what this suit is alluding to.

OR

2. The new take down rules involving search engines ('right to be forgotten') which specifically states that someone has a right to have his/her particular story removed from search engines. See story below on this issue where the EU has specific policy direction:- 

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/3/5867477/google-takes-down-links-to-british-journalism-under-right-to-be-forgotten

Again, some of these issues can be resolved fairly quickly if we had policy direction which the court can quickly use.

Anyone knows what the latest ICT Bill says about these particular issues? 

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On Dec 10, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Exactly how does Google come into this?

Waithaka Ngigi

Alliance Technologies
Nairobi, Kenya

www.A1.io

On 10 Dec 2014 12:56, "Grace Githaiga via kictanet" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

The Constitutional and Human Rights Division of the High Court, sitting in Nairobi, declined to grant Google Kenya’s prayers to be struck out of the case in which Ms Waiguru has sued Google Kenya and its mother company Google Incorporated.

Google Kenya had made the application in response to a suit the Cabinet Secretary had filed against it and Google Inc. as part of her fight with a Kenyan website Daily Post over publication of a story she claims was defamatory.



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