The recent admission by treasury and disowning the Tech company behind e-citizen poses a major threat to exposure of millions of Kenyans data on that portal.

From below excerpt seems focus is on revenue but the bigger threat data no?

“I am aware that the government has not authorised Goldrock Capital to collect the convenience fee or otherwise derive any remunerative benefit from any transaction carried out through the eCitizen portal. I am aware that Goldrock Capital is not authorised by the CS, National Treasury to collect revenue for and on behalf of the government,” Dr Thugge says in his response. Webmasters Kenya has also denied subcontracting Goldrock to collect money paid for government services through eCitizen. Ful article ... http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Treasury-now-disowns-eCitizen-platfo... I believe it high time we fast tract adoption of the Data Protection and Data Residency act. The GDPR comes into effect in May and we seem not aligned to that target. Timothy Oriedo Data Scientist @coachtimoriedo 0722816171 Coach Timothy Oriedo [image: http://]timothyoriedo.coach <http://timothyoriedo.coach?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api>