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    "id": 1564019,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the statement by Sen. Mumma on the need to protect data in this country. It is surprising that at a time when data is the most expensive asset that anyone can have, we are not protecting the poor people who cannot afford buying a phone and not have to register it. The most important thing we need to do is to ask ourselves whether it is imperative for this House and the National Assembly to re-amend the Data Protection Act, be specific and also intentional when it comes to the issue of guarding. When you hear that those who cannot afford to buy phones at full prices are buying the phones on credit and then that data is sold to a third party, it really begs the question on what we really need to do. One of my biggest pet peeves is when you are sitting down here, you find a telemarketer sending you a text message telling you to buy bundles using a short code. I think we need to relook at the whole issue of data protection in this country. Even the basic request for an ID number when you are going to deposit money with Safaricom and then that record is kept there, we should ask ourselves whether we have to redefine the law to be able to make it difficult for people to ask for your ID number and they write it down. We need to be more creative and say you can give the last four digits of your number or these telecommunication companies come up with a smarter way of protecting data. They can actually demand that you give them the third, fourth or the last digit of your ID number instead of having to give out the full ID number. I hope the Committee on ICT will take this statement seriously because today, it is that poor farmer or that poor mama mboga who cannot afford to buy a phone at full price whose data is being sold. Tomorrow, it is you, the legislator sitting here, who can be able to afford a Kshs200,000 phone with your name being used to register a phone number and then being used for fraud. We also must ask ourselves whether we need to limit the number of phone numbers people can have because you will find the ID of one person has been used to register 20 lines. If you follow those 20 lines, you will be shocked. In some counties we know people collect revenue using those 20 numbers and then they just throw away the sim cards."
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