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Data Protection Act, 2019 🇰🇪


REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Data Protection Act, 2019

Act 24 of 2019

  • Assented to on 8 November 2019
  • Commenced on 25 November 2019
  • [This is the version of this document from 25 November 2019.]
AN ACT of Parliament to give effect to Article 31(c) and (d) of the Constitution; to establish the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of personal data; to provide for the rights of data subjects and obligations of data controllers and processors; and for connected purposes

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Data Protection Act, 2019.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"anonymisation" means the removal of personal identifiers from personal data so that the data subject is no longer identifiable;"biometric data" means personal data resulting from specific technical processing based on physical, physiological or behavioural characterisation including blood typing, fingerprinting, deoxyribonucle…

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