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    "id": 942704,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you. I thank the Chair because he is telling me the private one is covered. Every single day, you are inundated by people using your personal data to get you into all manner of groups. I think all Members know that. You wake up in the morning and you are in a group of people who harvest flies, people who want to dance while singing and all manner of things. Sometimes you just switch off your phone not because you do not want to work with people, but it is overwhelming. There must be some control in terms of information that you get. It is not that difficult. In funerals, people tell you there is a way to join WhatsApp groups and I choose to, but you should not just wake up in the morning and add me to any group. Well, if it is for my constituency, that might be a bit different because I am elected to serve. So, I may not complain. Today, I left a group from another constituency. I was added to a WhatsApp group for “The Bureti We Want”. If you want Bureti, what does it got to do with me? I am just giving that as an example. As Members of Parliament, we get overwhelmed by all these things. For me, from the perspective of privacy, we need to protect our data. From the perspective of freedom of choice, especially political freedom of choice, then we need to protect our data. I remember when I was running for the first time, one of my opponents, who also happens to be a very good friend of mine and who comes from the computer world, had superior knowledge than me at a time when people were still not very conversant with this. One time in the morning, everybody woke up in my constituency and he had sent them personal messages. They said: “Wow, this is the person we will vote for because he has sent me a personalised message”. Many people left me because of receiving personalised messages at a very limited cost. I did not know that I was not able to use that data to reach people. That also creates unfair competition. So, we must provide a parameter on what data and how we can deal with private data. Finally, the reason I said I am supporting this in principle is because I have not had an opportunity to look at this in depth. I have heard complaints outside. I am going to spend time and look at some of the complaints that people are putting on this Bill. If I agree with them, I shall be proposing amendments."
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