The East African country is set to introduce fresh audit rules that will put data controllers further under the microscope.
Dippy Singh reports:
Kenya has unveiled its new data protection draft rules that will impose stricter regulations on data controllers in a bid to bolster the privacy of its citizens.
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, along with the Ministry of Information Communication and Digital Economy (MICDE), have published the Draft Data Protection (Conduct of Compliance Audit) Regulations 2024.
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The new regulations would extend the Kenyan Data Protection Act, which was enacted in 2019 and applies to data controllers and processors who process personal data while in Kenya or of data subjects located in the country.
Read more at African Law & Business.
Related: The Data Protection (Compliance audit) Regulations 2024)