Social media platforms will lose for disregarding code of practice

Stealing a credit card through a laptop concept for computer hacker. [Getty Images]

Barely a week after President William Ruto launched Kenya's first data protection registration system on International Data Privacy Day, January 27, 2023, the world's most influential social media platform faces its most important test of accountability and legitimacy in a Kenyan court.

Organised by the three-year-old independent Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, this annual conference held the attention of diverse stakeholders for two days.