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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I would also like to thank Sen. Farhiya for her input and submissions. She did put this in perspective as to how important data is for planning and decision-making purposes. She would know that as a finance expert because she deals with that every single day. I thank her for her contribution on the issue of corruption under Clause 6. She says it should be added on the list of things for which data protection will be alluding to. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to thank Sen. Faki very much for his eloquent Kiswahili submission. I hope I understood and captured all of it. If I did not, I will go back and ask him to help me with some of it. He did speak on development in technology with regard to protection and misuse of data as this Bill gives effect to Article 31 of the Constitution. As a fine lawyer that he is, he talked about the human rights issues that this Bill will enable and the mitigations against abuses of the rights and freedoms of people. Again, he also spoke about profiling on the basis of religion. Furthermore, he spoke about the issues around security to profiling certain communities based on their data that they provide or perceived profiles of their religion and other personal data as described in the Bill. He did speak to the fact that penalties are lenient. We take note and we will make sure that they are punitive as they should be. We take note of all these things and we will make sure that this Bill speaks to every of these inputs and responds to them. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would also like to thank Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka who very articulately put for us in perspective, the principles and objects of this Bill. He gave us the emphasis on the consent of the data subject which he felt was fundamental. In addition, he spoke to us on the research data integrity and how long data should be kept in perpetuity for five or seven years. I will not say the time that we will settle on, but we will make sure that we look at that. We have had this discussion in the Committee, where we looked at data from a different perspective that is the banking, school, and health records. We thought that different agencies will need different timelines. So, we felt that we should not be too prescriptive in this law, but to allow other laws to guide us. We fully understand that we may create an undesired consequence if we leave it open. However, the Committee is willing to look at this and come up with something that will lend itself to the different aspects of the data use and ensure that we take care of that."
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