@Shadrack It was not the full DB being carried around. For places with electricity and competent officials
the credentials would fail for those not registered for the specific station(and character range)....

That not withstanding, not all data given to any government is meant to be released to public. Think of 
tax return details and the various client information, details of where you live and personal data... 

I prefer a right to privacy rather than the whole being monitored and profiled.


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Shadrack Mwaniki <shadrack_mwaniki@yahoo.com> wrote:
It is wrong to publish the list of registered voters in public.
We are soon going to be uncovered by those guys we lied to. That we voted for them in upcountry yet
we registered here in Nairobi.

The complete database of registered voters should never have left the IEBC
server in the first place.

Each machine should have been loaded with the subset of the database relevant to that polling station/Stream.
If they were loading the full database, no wonder the systems failed.

On the light side, it a pointer to lazy/incompetent programmers. They should have invested on an automated application/db
loading module as opposed to carrying the complete DB around in a flash disk.

Regards


From: Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com>

To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:42 PM

Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] IEBC's voter registration data....

This is data is not to be made public available as it is. Contains people's names, photo, IDs, phone number, email address and where you registered to vote (close to where you live).

It is not public information, but for the sole use of IEBC to register and verify voters for the purposes of elections and referendums.

When we gave this data to IEBC during the voter registration exercise, we gave this data under the assumption of privacy with the understanding that this information will not be released to the public or made accessible to persons not authorized to have access.

I know our data protection laws are there but either not known or enforced, but IEBC should have actually educated the public on this.

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