Celebrate Data Privacy Week with insights from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) Kenya. Learn about safeguarding personal data, digital transformation, and compliance services to help your business thrive in a secure, data-driven world.
Explore the complex admissibility of secret recordings in disciplinary hearings and court proceedings. This article examines privacy rights, relevant legal cases, and the balance between privacy and justice, highlighting the importance of consent in evidence gathering.
Wanjiru v Machakos University (Petition E021 of 2021) [2022] KEHC 10599 (KLR) (3 August 2022) (Judgment) The High Court at Machakos has faulted a university for using the image of a former student without her consent and awarded her Kshs 700,000/- in damages. The court held that this violated the Petitioner’s right to privacy and human dignity guaranteed by the…
The passing of Kenya’s Data Protection Act (No. 24 of 2019) (hereinafter “the Act”) on 25th November 2019 breathed life to the pre-existing right to privacy guaranteed under Article 31 of the Constitution, 2010, by providing for regulation of the processing of personal data. In the employment sphere, the Act and its subsidiary regulations set out the requirements to be…