Data Privacy by Design - The Problem & Promise of the DPA,19
In early September of this year the headlines screamed various versions of "Facebook doesn't know where your data is, what it's engineers are doing with it." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-user-data_n_6318ff67e4b046aa0230a14e We clutched at our pearls in shock and horror. How could they? But is Facebook's experience unique to them? I do not think so. As you interact more intimately with the Kenyan Data Protection Act, 2019, you realise that this problem is not unique to Facebook. Many organisations do not know where their data is, or what it's constituents are doing with it. DPA,19 and Privacy by Design A major challenge with the DPA, 19 is that the government mandated a legislation without factoring the technical part, implemented by software and hardware engineers, as part of its transition. There are resource implications of placing data protection and privacy at the centre of design. Time, cost and technical expertise has to be factored in...