Posts Tagged: Tech-Legislation

Insights, analysis, and commentary on intellectual property, information technology law, and digital policy in Africa, filtered by the topic "Tech-Legislation."

Did we get Huduma Namba because of a simple mistake in Parliament?

By Isaac Rutenberg The Hansard for the Miscellaneous Amendment Act 2018 makes for very interesting reading. On 7th August 2018, Parliament debated proposed amendments to...

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Third party data sharing: Analysis of the Data Protection Bill, 2019

By Grace Mutung’u This is the finale in our series on Data Protection principles espoused in the Data Protection Bill. Clause 25 of the 2019...

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Net Neutrality: a brief

By Jaaziyah Satar and Malcolm Kijirah Net neutrality is the concept of free access to the internet. Net neutrality has many advantages and disadvantages. The...

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The Principle of Accuracy: Section 25 (e) of the Data Protection Bill

By Jackline Akello The following post is the third of CIPIT’s analysis of the data protection principles provided for under section 25 of the Data...

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HUDUMA NAMBA BILL ANALYSIS

The Huduma Namba draft bill (“the Bill”) was introduced in July 2019 against the backdrop of a petition that challenged the recent amendments to the...

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Purpose Limitation and Data Minimization in the 2019 Data Protection Bill

By Alex Gatawa* The following post is the second of CIPIT’s analysis of the data protection principles provided for under section 25 of the Data...

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Privacy expanded: What is the right to privacy, as required in the Data Protection Bill?

This is the first in a series of blogs where the CIPIT team analyses the principles of data protection as provided in Section 25 of...

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Public Participation and Data Protection

Last year, CIPIT hosted a series of public participation fora over three months in response to a request for comment on a proposed Data Protection...

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