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Every time you sign up for an online service or create an account with a company whose servers sit in another country, your personal information may be crossing a border without you ever seeing a passport. Kenya’s data regulator now wants to make sure those journeys have some rules.
What happened? The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC), Kenya’s data protection regulator, has issued new guidance for organisations that transfer personal data outside Kenya or receive it from another country. The guidance applies to organisations handling personal data in Kenya and sets out what they need to consider before sending that information abroad.
Originally published by TechCabal.