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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nzioka",
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        "legal_name": "Erastus Kivasu Nzioka",
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    "content": "On the false and misleading information, Article 33 is very clear on the freedom of expression. But Article 33(2) does not extend to propaganda, incitement, hate speech and trolling. There is need to curb the spread of either disinformation or misinformation of this information through the internet platforms which are being used especially by the youth which includes Face book, WhatsApp, Instagram, twitter and others. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, forgery of computer data is becoming a concern. I heard Hon. Mule talk about more definitions on this forgery. My understanding is, when you talk about forgery you are looking at either altering information from these computer systems, deleting that information or suppressing the data that resides within those computer systems. So, anybody who commits any of those offences is liable to forgery of the computer data crime. We have all been victims of cyber stalking or bullying. We have been sent threatening messages which have caused a lot of harm to us repeatedly. Sometimes we get messages requesting money which is either extortion or just trying to gain some financial access from the Members of Parliament. We have the social engineering or email fishing where people outside there try to manipulate other people into performing actions or diverging confidential information for their own gain. This information when you release it, sometimes you get coerced to give information unknowingly only for the information to be used against you or for other bad purposes. We need to be guarded against these email fishing. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is need to support this Computer and Cybercrime Bill, 2017 because we need to tackle the computer and cybercrime aspects and help improve our digital economy. Digital economy is affected when people shy away from the use of technology. If this Bill goes through, my expectation is that the digital economy within the country is bound to thrive because the fear will have gone. We have been extorted heavily on cyber extortion. This comes from the denial of service threats. This is where somebody gets into you accounts, tries to deny you a particular service and later come in and say, fine, if you want me to restore this service, let me have this or that. They usually do it to gain some money. If you give them then they stop it. That kind of action needs to stop and we can only do it through this Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cyber terrorism is becoming a concern. We have online recruitment, funding, planning and spoofing where people exaggerate on certain information. We even have Government threats and bomb attacks through the same message. This Bill equally expounds on how we can tackle some of these online issues. At the same time, we have been having fraud and financial crimes especially bank fraud and money transfer. Kenya is riving very well with Mpesa. Many of us have lost a lot of money through Mpesa from fraudsters through being cheated or coerced only to realise you have really lost that money. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Section 2 of the Bill talks about the Investigative Procedures. Our recommendations talk about the need to have a cybercrime unit that is going to help in the planning, coordination and execution of the prosecution issues for us to be able to help with the Bill being --- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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