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Citizens’ data on Covid was illegally mined, says new report

 

A man wearing PPEs looks from a balcony in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

State and private companies illegally harvested and shared Kenyans’ private data during the Covid-19 pandemic in direct breach of the Data Protection Act, 2020.

This is according to a new report that details how the pandemic fuelled infringements to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and access to information in Kenya and Uganda over the past year. 

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