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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Bill. Let me start by thanking the Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation for coming up with this Bill, whose time is now. If it is not now, it is today. If it is not today, then it is this hour. We are in the Jubilee administration which campaigned on the platform that it would be a digital Government. A digital Government means digitalising all information and collecting data from all individuals for the sake of easier delivery of services and easier access of services by the citizens of this country. Personal data is very useful in enforcing laws and making sure that Government services reach the citizens in time and in the required proportion. I am just from Qatar and I have seen how personal data is important in enforcing laws. In Doha, you may not find traffic officers on the road because all data is digitalised. If you are a traffic offender, you will just receive short message service on your phone of the traffic offence you have committed and how much you are supposed to pay and how you can pay that particular fine. This data is very important, but at the same time, very dangerous. If there will be a Third World War, God forbid, it will be a digital war. It will be a war in which information and personal data is used to finish communities, tribes and countries. We have just heard recently that Russia was able to infiltrate into the USA election. If it is true, the information was there. With such infiltration of data, we need a law to protect it. We have all given our data to the Huduma Namba registration. Everybody in the country, including Members of Parliament, gave every information because of the threats from the Government. We answered every question that they asked genuinely and they have our data. We do not know what they are doing with our data. What we know is that we have already given out our data. That is why this Bill is very important. It has come at the right time. As much as we may not know what the Government is doing with the data, when we pass this law, we will be assured that the data will be protected and anybody who divulges such information unlawfully will face penalties. That data will be protected wherever it is. It is very important for us to protect our citizens. We have heard of people in Kamiti accessing our data. The Member who has just spoken before me confirmed that somebody called him and he had all his three names and other information that he may not have told us because 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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