Introduction: The Data Protection Act, of 2019 introduced us to the era of stringent data protection regulations. To that end, the handling of personal data has become a paramount concern for individuals and organizations alike. ...
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On 12 June 2023, the leader of the Majority Party published the Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2023 with Parliament.The Bill repeals the Persons with Disabilities Act, No.14 of 2003. The Act had a large focus on physical accessibility and employment...
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The Kenyan government launched the Gava Mkononi app this week.Against this backdrop, there are genuine concerns about risks to personal data and the steps being taken to safeguard it. In this article, we review the risks associated with recycled phon...
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The inaugural IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards were issued this week. IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 are intended to provide a global baseline of sustainability-related disclosures for use by investors, lenders and insurance underwriters in assessing an...
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Ethics and compliance officers have to perpetually scope the environment to draw out emerging trends impacting organizations. as a result your ethics and compliance program cannot remain static and it must evolve with those emerging trends.We have id...
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A data breach occurs when an incident exposes protected information such as personal data.The breach may involve loss or theft of a customer or employee list, an unencrypted hard drive, lost thumb drive, exposed attendee list, which may be containing...
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Digitizing policy management can help an organisation achieve culture change through accountability. A digital system provides a centralized, automated, and transparent approach to policy and procedures management that is very supportive of accountab...
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In today’s highly digital age, people are acutely aware that their data is always being collected.Your organisation by virtue of being in operation, is probably collecting a lot of personal data from the following activities and your stakeholders kno...
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This article seeks to highlight three items that we consider to be important to highlight when it comes to #data compliance. It is based on the work that MZIZI-Africa is doing to support organisations implement or strengthen compliance systems. 1. Ap...
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The Registrar of the High Court has implemented a Register of Convicted Sexual Offenders under the Sexual Offences (Dangerous Offenders DNA Data Bank) Regulations, 2008.The Registry will make available a sensitive category of data to the public and i...
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Scope 3 emissions are emissions that are not within an organizations boundary of influence or control (from the goods it purchases to the disposal of its products) and they can account to up to 90% of a companies total GHG emissions.It may be argued ...
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change issued a shocking timelines on climate change in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Repor...
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Organizations collect employee data for purposes of managing the relationship and to facilitate decision making.The Kenyan Data Protection Act, 2019 (DPA,19) is built around 7 principles, we will use those principles to set up a framework for reviewi...
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MZIZI Africa works with organizations to set up and strengthen compliance systems. Our Data Privacy Library is 1 of 16 law libraries containing easy to deploy employee Communication Tools which bedrock data compliance. This requires that we document ...
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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." We clutched at our pearls in shock and horror. How could they? But is Face...
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