Tag: Data Privacy

Kenya's government is drawing up plans to sell data it collects through public platforms, and the model it appears to ...

A High Court ruling in Nairobi has put every company that collects personal data on notice, and the lesson is ...

I recently came across a WhatsApp status from someone we're in the same group with, even though we've never interacted. ...

In 2 days, anything you send in Instagram DMs will be, in principle, readable by Meta. The company is pulling ...

Did you know that under Kenyan law, you have the right to see what your former employer wrote about you ...

When reports emerged in early March that Safaricom would begin masking phone numbers in M-PESA transaction notifications, the details were ...

TikTok has confirmed it will not introduce end-to-end encryption for direct messages on its platform. The company says the decision ...

Between December 2025 and January 2026, a single unknown person used a consumer AI chatbot to systematically dismantle the cybersecurity ...

People love to jump on online trends. You've probably come across or even participated in the ongoing ChatGPT caricature trend ...

On January 20, 2026, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) confirmed the final deletion of all biometric data ...

Meta is facing a lawsuit filed by an international group of plaintiffs over alleged ‘false’ privacy claims about WhatsApp's end-to-end ...

OpenAI has dropped ChatGPT Health, carving out a separate space within ChatGPT specifically for health conversations. The move was necessitated ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya stepped in today to calm growing fears about new SIM card registration requirements, insisting that ...

Kenya is facing a major public debate after a new draft regulation by the Communications Authority (CA) proposed that network ...

Google just agreed to fork over $30 million to settle yet another lawsuit about spying on kids through YouTube. This ...

Government surveillance ambitions have been dealt a decisive blow after the High Court dismantled a controversial plan that would have ...

Facebook is quietly introducing a powerful new AI feature that could give it deeper access to your phone than ever ...

As internet restrictions become increasingly common in moments of political unrest or during protests, many people in Kenya are turning ...

Protests are a fundamental right in democratic societies, but in Kenya, as we've witnessed lately, exercising this right can put ...

Kenya's National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee has dropped a bombshell in its latest budget recommendations: KES 150 million specifically ...

Kenya's Parliament is considering a bill that could make your internet work the same way your electricity bill works: pay ...

Kenya is taking steps to protect children online. New guidelines from the Communications Authority (CA) require "age verification mechanisms" for ...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has denied claims that its systems were hacked. The social scheme firmly assured Kenyans ...

The United Boda Boda Association of Kenya (UBBAK) has expressed its concerns over the proposed Public Transport (Motorcycle Regulation) Bill, ...

At the Milimani courts today, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) requested to retain the mobile phones ...

The United States District Court of Northern California has found the Israel spyware company, NSO Group Technologies Limited, liable for ...

X updated terms of service take effect today, November 15th. While terms of service are regularly updated, this particular round ...

UDA nominated senator Gloria Orwoba has allegedly had a Kenyan journalist, Edgar Wabwire, arrested. The journalist is currently in police ...

Meta is currently training its generative AI models. As it stands, both users and non-users of its products should be ...

In January 2024, ​​Belgium assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). With this, the Chat control ...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong issued an order on May 22nd, halting ...

Dating app Grindr has been taken to court for violating users’ data privacy. Its users came forward claiming the app ...

Today the President of Tanzania, H. E. Samia Suluhu Hassan officially inaugurated the Tanzanian Personal Data Protection Commission. The data ...

Netflix and Facebook enjoyed a decade long relationship that compromised the privacy and safety of user data. In shocking revelations, ...

A judge in California found that plaintiffs in a class action suit against Apple AirTag had “made sufficient claims for ...