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    "id": 1163130,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1163130/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "information. This is as much as it also exposes them to a wealth of benefits and opportunities especially through e- learning. We need to be alive to the new realities brought about by crimes committed against children in the cyber space as well, even as we look at the electoral malpractices and processes. Last year, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) released a quarterly sector statistics report, covering July to September, 2020. According to the report, there was an increase in child online abuse and fraud. Additionally, enterprises such as Savings and Credit Cooperatives Societies (SACCOS), banks, financial services, betting firms and even Government institutions, have been targeted in the general increase of cyber related attacks over the last few years. Our Constitution recognizes the right to privacy, including the right not have a citizen’s personal information in relation to their family or private affairs unnecessarily acquired, revealed or used. Data protection is also regulated by the Data Protection Act No.24 of 2019. Establishment of the data protection laws aim at protecting individual’s rights and privacy to personal information. Accessing, using or processing one’s personal information without authorization is an offence under the Act. It is an infringement of the privacy rights and there is need to protect these rights. Moreover, the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act of 2018 seeks to detect, prohibit, prevent, respond to, investigate and prosecute computer and cyber crimes. The question that begs is; what are these agencies doing because lawlessness and insecurity of our data is at unprecedented levels especially during this electioneering period? The country needs new strategies to mitigate threats to its cyberspace and come up with more adequate cyber security measures in key sectors. Madam Temporary Speaker, in view of the above and because of the importance of this matter, perhaps you may also allow us to go into the depth of this, that it be looked into because we need to make sure that even if it is a matter of risk mitigation or taking this opportune time to ensure that we do not see a situation where good leaders are locked out of elections because of cyber security and bad leaders are using these kinds of unprecedented and unlawful methods through the cyber security to advance terrible breakage of the law. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to present this. I pray that the committee will look into this issue because it is becoming prevalent. From where I sit as the chairperson for the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD-Kenya), cyber security is a threat to our democracy. T"
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