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    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support this Bill because I am a Member of the Committee and was present as we deliberated it. I support the purpose of the Bill because it is providing regulations for processing personal data. We should have regulations for people giving data and subject rights with regard to protection of personal data. We should have regulations on how handling of data is done, by who and where it is stored. I support the Bill because it has taken good care of this part. I also support having a data commissioner. I also support the process of selecting one. The appointment, powers and qualifications are put in place, so that the data commissioner can be a person of high standing, integrity and is trusted by Kenyans to protect their data even against the Government that he serves. I have looked at the process of appointing a data commissioner, removal from office and powers accorded including the functions of the office. I support the Bill because they have taken good care of that part. I have also looked at the data processors and controllers because they are the people who will be collecting data. What if you want to collect data like they did with the Huduma Namba, were they registered by the data commissioner? If you want to collect some personal data from people living in Lodwar or Lari for some purpose, one should have a licence to collect it and give benchmarks to the data commissioner so as to be allowed to collect the data. I support the part to do with data processors and controllers. I am happy the data commissioner will come up with regulations to guide them, so that they can live within a framework and get licences in an easier and controlled way. I also support the part on sensitive personal data. Today, there are institutions which collect sensitive personal data from people. You will find people going to collect data on the number of disabled people or those living with HIV in the village. Their main purpose is to solicit for money in the UK, Europe and where we have NGOs. There are so many people who are collecting data. They will tell you, for instance, that they want to provide you with water tanks. Then they will go ahead to ask how many people in your family have this and that disease or how many people in your family have cows. They obviously are going to use the data somewhere else without your consent. So, this Bill is trying to curb that practice. What we can really curb is the usage of the data. Data is universal. It is everywhere. People are collecting data for different purposes but they are behaving like they are collecting it for other purposes. 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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