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Over the years, KICTAnet has contributed to the development of various ICT laws in Kenya, among them the Kenya Information & Communications Act 2013, [10] Kenya Data Protection Act 2019, [11] [12] Kenya Computer Misuse & Cybercrimes Act 2018, [13] Kenya ICT Policy 2006, Kenya ICT Policy 2019, [14] and the Kenya Data Protection Policy 2019.
The Bahamas has an official data protection law that protects the personal information of its citizens in both the private and public sector: Data Protection Act 2003 (the Bahamas Law). [19] The Bahamas Law appoints a data protection commissioner to the Office of Data Protection to ensure that data protection is being held.
Information privacy, data privacy or data protection laws provide a legal framework on how to obtain, use and store data of natural persons. The various laws around the world describe the rights of natural persons to control who is using their data.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation that specifies standards for data protection and electronic privacy in the European Economic Area, and the rights of European citizens to control the processing and distribution of personally-identifiable information.
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is the independent regulatory agency for the ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) industry in Kenya with responsibilities in telecommunications, e-commerce, broadcasting,cyber security, and postal/courier services.
Data portability is a concept to protect users from having their data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making the creation of data backups or moving accounts between services difficult.
On the European level, it is the G29 and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The process was backed in 2005 by the Council of Europe, during the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis, November 2005), and in 2006/2007 within forums on Internet governance (Athens 2006, Rio 2007).
As such, the data subject must also be provided with contact details for the data controller and their designated data protection officer, where applicable. [27] [28] Data protection impact assessments (Article 35) have to be conducted when specific risks occur to the rights and freedoms of data subjects. Risk assessment and mitigation is ...