Some myopic views through shallow news coverage often peddled by sponsored interests sleeper agents often masquerading as innocent, kind and public-interest caring souls can be quite irritating more than. mitigating which herein shall embark on offering evidence as to why we all need to rise up in arms against privacy violation in Kenya. There comes a time when fighting and shooting straight between the eyes is our civic duty far from the luxury of administering it sugar coated. YES!!
So the Kenyan ‘government is to start phone tapping in war on counterfeit’ – Its so how scaring! They will listen to all our calls, read our SMS and review al our mobile money transactions. Now about to faint, damn! Thank heavens for 40 per cent UK Vodafone-owned Safaricom for expressing concerns on imminent privacy violation by snoopy Kenyan government. What would have become of us without this gallant public privacy caring mobile operator, never mind their Mobitelea founders secret (or was it ‘privacy’) history? Anyway, who cares – sometimes it never hurts to obfuscate secrecy with privacy to achieve those greater benefits.
Oh! by the way, not forgetting that the new competition rules drawn by the Communications Authority were cooked up solely to hurt this our precious telecommunications private monopoly and therefore our collective fury at the regulator must send a very strong signal to any jealous person whom dares attack their hard-earned success from years of investment on innovative products and services. Needless to say, our local baby of UK-domiciled Vodafone Group last year boasted assets worth £133.7 (KShs 17.3 trillion) total equity of £65.88 billion ( Kshs 8.5 trillion) and annual revenue of £40.97 (Kshs 5.3 trillion) making mockery of Kenya’s 2016/2017 total expenditure of Kshs 2.05 trillion, or in other words, our entire national budget is no more than just a fraction of the net worth of mighty Vodafone value.
What a digression from the original privacy discourse, when all aware that the Britishgovernment stands accused of breaking the law by forcing telecoms andinternet providers to retain records of phone calls, texts andinternet usage, months after Europe's highest court said that such data retention breaches citizens' fundamental right to privacy contrary to Data Retention (EC Direction) Act of 2009.
But at this point engage selective amnesia and choose to forget Hon. Edward Snowden’s revelation of the ‘Five Eyes’ surveillance programme comprising Austrlia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States – because you see? It’s easier to punch at weak Kenya government alleged snooping while steering off the unberably crazy international surveillance arrangements considering that, what the heck, even civil society gets donor funding from those rich countries so it helps not to bite the hand that feeds us. OK, agree we all keep it local not to antagonise the sleeping dog – it could wake up and bite us. Which compels a move on to another issue.
Facebooks users are 'Dumb Fucks', or so admitted Facebook CEO as he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information. "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider. But forgive him since he thinks he’s grown and learned alot.
What about Google, Microsoft, Apple, ad infinitum – all US firms we are all very fine trusting with our very, very very personal data? Does US have the rights to all your Google & FB data? Find out here. And did you know The Trade In Services Agreement (TISA / TiSA), currently being negotiated among 50 countries, if passed would:
prohibit regulations on the financial industry;
eliminate laws to safeguard online or digital privacy;
render illegal any 'buy local' rules at any level of government;
effectively dismantle any public advantages to be derived from state-owned enterprises; and
eliminate net neutrality.
Shocking information here.
OK, this is not going as initially wanted, because the bigger fear out there is unberable. And therefore, I shall revert to my original plan of praising our local wonderful privacy champion Safaricom airing worryover fake mobile monitoring plan by snoopy GoK through CommunicationsAuthority of Kenya for I don’t care what happens out there in the global arena. Choosing to adopt the phrase, ‘what you don’t know cannot hurt you.’
Indeed, 'Free is a Lie' – Aral Balkan
If you doubt my strong evidence do contact the source references cited.
addios
Gakuru
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:Rapudo,
I thought so too. Looking forwad to the clarification by the Communications Authority.
Regards
On Feb 17, 2017 11:08 AM, "Rapudo Hawi via isoc" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:Listers,It is important to take note that this action has been done for length of time with passage of Terrorism Act among other policy initiatives. The only difference is that now it has reached the public domain. The discussions is how we contain this is founded on the freedoms, rights and liberties for Kenya enshrined within the constitution of Kenya 2010.The question that sets out is the public privacy protected and how can be enhanced without being exposed to the threats of cyber securityRapudo Hawi, Social Development Practitioner,Certified Security Specialist and Design Innovation ExpertTelephone: +254 720975498Twitter: rapudohawiSykpe: rapudo.hawiLinkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/hawirapudoblog On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Wambua, Christopher via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:Listers,
There is no dishonesty here Ali. This is a case of blatant misrepresentation which we shall be addressing shortly. As I indicated earlier through this list, the DMS is not intrusive and therefore does not infringe on the privacy of mobile telecommunications users. We shall be sharing a comprehensive statement on the system shortly.
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] [isoc_ke] Govt to start phone tapping in war on counterfeit trade - Daily Nation
What actually shocks me is the dishonesty of all this. We had engaged CA a few weeks ago and the denials were clear...
CA, please help us understand this...
Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle
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But on what legal basis is the phone tapping being done?
The closest connection I can see to the issue of counterfeit devices is the Type Approval Regulations, 2010.
If this is the basis, how can subsidiary legislation be used to limit a right like privacy?
Could CA clarify on what basis this is happening???On 16 Feb 2017 8:02 p.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Listers
From Tuesday, the government wants to be allowed to listen to your calls, read your texts and review your mobile money transactions.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/GThe government, through the Communications Authority of Kenya, has ordered mobile phone companies to allow it to tap their computers.
Read on:-
overnment-likely-to-start-phon e-tapping/1056-3816372-m5vnfx/ index.html
Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates
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