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State demands Kenyans' data from Facebook. [Photo: Courtesy]
The government demanded that social networking service company Facebook reveal private information about Kenyan users on five different occasions in the first half of 2019.
According to the latest transparency report from Facebook, in four of the five times, the State refused to use proper legal channels while demanding the information, insisting on the urgency of the demand.
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