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There was so much hullaballoo about the Data Protection Law that President Uhuru Kenyatta accented to a few days ago. Any tech expert can tell you that Silicon Valley giants have a lot of access to the data of African users.
Because of our continent’s notoriously lax protection laws, companies such as Facebook and its affiliates WhatsApp and Instagram, Google and Apple are able to collect more data than we can imagine. This is then used to influence our consumer habits and opinions through targeted advertising.
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