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"speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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"content": "was a big outcry in the US about Facebook . In fact, the founder of Facebook was actually grilled by the Congress on the use of private information that was being received by his organisation. They would receive information and share it with other companies. They would look at the kind of things you view, access and seek and they would get to know the kind of person you are. They give that information to marketing companies to continuously bombard you with information and requests to purchase items. That is one of the things that will be sorted out by the Bill. This information can also be used for elections. What happened in the USA case that we read about is that people were influenced slowly but surely by use of technology. That happened because they had shared their information. On issues to do with security, it is true that security can be compromised if you share certain data. I remember one of my colleagues in the last Parliament saying in this House that there are Members who when they travel even with their families, they post on their Facebook pages that they have travelled. The minute that is posted, it is like telling thieves in the estate that you are not there and they can easily raid your home. So, this is an important Bill. The second part of Article 31(d) of the Constitution says that the privacy of their communication in fringed. I do not know how we will manage this. The privacy of your communication being protected means that no one should listen to your calls and nobody should read or intercept your mail. I remember having a fight in this House in the last Parliament when we were dealing with miscellaneous amendments that were proposing to give the State agencies an opportunity to listen to conversations because of security reasons. I do not know whether this contradicts those amendments we made. It is important that private data is now protected. We are going to take care of who processes the data and who protects it. We are getting the right in this Bill to query the use of our data which is important and we are going to get the right to correct the data that has been put out there and we will get the right to delete. This is really important. There is establishment of the office of the data commissioner and the process by which this person will be recruited, employed, interviewed by the Public Service Commission and then three names forwarded to the Head of State who will then send a name to Parliament for vetting. That system has worked for this country. I ask that when the House receives such a name, we be seized of the matter and ensure that we do thorough drilling so that we do not have people with no integrity getting into offices that are very sensitive, like this one of the data commissioner. So, it is important that when that time comes, the House should stand up to be counted and do the right thing to ensure we get the right people. We also have data processors and controllers. It is proposed that data should be processed in a transparent manner and has to be collected for specific uses. Once the use is done away with, the data should be deleted. Consent of the owner of the data should be sought before it is used. If the owner is below the age of consent, you seek the consent from the parents. That is important. These are the things that have been missing from our legislation to enable the country move into the digital age in a proper manner. I hope that once this House passes this, those busybodies that are constantly waiting for legislation to come out of this House to rush to court and those judges that are continuously injuncting this House, will this time see that this is something that will help the country and avoid those tendencies that they have been having. Thank you. I support."
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