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    "id": 1590461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "There are two reasons I support the Committee to delete Clause 52 of the Bill. Even if they succeeded in going in this direction, they would not have raised the taxes by allowing the Commissioner to require a person to integrate or share their data relating to trade secrets, and private or personal data that is held on behalf of customers or collected in the course of business. I was part of the formulation of an important Act of Parliament, that is, the Data Protection Act, 2019. I have to report to this House that it is lauded across the globe as one of the most robust data protection laws that is in existence. The Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning talked about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is a standard setter and the data law in the European Union (EU). However, the Data Protection Act, 2019 is even better than GDPR. When we were crafting the law, we looked, searched and spun across the world to see how data laws sat in other jurisdictions, and then integrate the nuances of the Kenyan situation. That is how we came up with such a robust law—Data Protection Act, 2019. We have no business offending what is working. If it is working, there is no reason to fix it. I, therefore, support the Committee's move to delete Clause 52, so that the Commissioner does not require any person to integrate or share data that is relating to trade secrets, but most importantly, to private or personal data. We have gained such good reputation out there because of a matter called adequacy in data laws. Our laws are considered to be adequate. By diluting our laws, we shall run the risk of running into adequacy problems with our data laws. As such, I believe that the move towards allowing the commissioner to access private data shall be faulting our laws, and shall not benefit tax collection. With those many remarks, I support this Finance Bill. I also recommend that any Kenyan who has any issue with this, to first get the facts. This is because the disinformation is rife. The misinformation and the mal-information are out there…"
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