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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "times on end by either members of the public or the media. You read very private information about different Members of this House and wonder whether the person who drafted that information knew that it would be injurious to the character and person of that human being that is targeted. Mr. Speaker Sir, we have even read stories in the past that have listed medical data. I consider medical records to be amongst the top private issues of a human being. However, we have woken up in the past to read that so-and-so has a certain disease. When you ask them, they will tell you that they did not reveal and come out publicly on the same. In developed and modern working societies, before you can share any kind of information, there is a process you must go through. Even when a media house wants to do a story on a certain Senator, for example, about an illness they are battling, they must first seek their consent and say: “We know through our sources that you are battling such and such an issue. Will you be free to share this story?” If that person is free and feels that they want to share their story, so that others can learn from their struggle, they can go ahead and give the consent. Mr. Speaker Sir, those are amongst the issues that are being proposed in this Bill; to provide a framework and an avenue to ensure that personal data is protected. This even goes down to how we protect our businesses as a country. If you file your information with your bank and give all the details that they take down before they give you an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card, unknown to all of us here is that there are many third party institutions that get to access that personal data about you, because of the nature of work that banks do. They share that information either to possess your card and send it to different countries, yet locally, we have companies that can produce these ATM cards. Mr. Speaker Sir, I listened to proposals that were presented before us by very brilliant Kenyans, who came and shared with our Committee. They asked us: “Why are you allowing banks to take away businesses from us? Even though they produce the cards cheaply, what about the data they are sharing out there?” Data is money. It is not unusual nowadays to go to certain cities of this world and instead of paying with money, you pay using personal data. You just fill your name, age, height and other information, which is put together in the databank. It is equivalent to barter trade transactions, only that unlike in the past where we used to exchange eggs for soap, you exchange data for either coffee or a meal. Therefore, data is extremely important. It is the language of the 21st Century."
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