From Tuesday, the government wants to be allowed to listen to your calls, read your texts and review your mobile money transactions.
The government, through the Communications Authority of Kenya, has ordered mobile phone companies to allow it to tap their computers.
The tapping into these computers will be done by a company contracted by the agency.
Though the reason given for the tapping is tracking counterfeit devices, the minute it starts, 40 million Kenyans will lose their privacy.
Usually, governments can listen to private conversations and access personal data, but by law they need to have a good reason and get a warrant from a judge.
Additionally, Kenya has no data protection law, so people who gain access to others’ personal information can abuse it.
The authority has already written to mobile phone service providers setting up dates for the plugging of the snooping device, with some as close as Tuesday next week.
@snapdragon as the resident thief you are supposed to be ahead of the pack and don’t swallow BS from the FAKE NEWS media. Wagusi asked a question that every level headed person would ask themselves, do we have the capacity to listen on calls for over 35m registered mobile phones users, and for what purposes? Remember that time when a draft audit report was leaked to the media on the supposedly 5.2B Afya house scandal? Good.
The threat here is not that they can spy on all of us. The fear is that innocent individuals could be targeted for snooping. If the system goes live, it’s bound to be misused by the govt, law enforcement and powerful people. A business competitor for instance could pay someone in the agency to record your calls , read your texts etc. Case in point, I have heard of people bribing the cops to trace movements of others using their phones or get printouts of their call logs, texts etc.
Of course they have nothing to do with peasants they target big fish esp celebs big business niggaz and politicians esp hii msimu ya election.
Not tht the haven’t been doing it but now it will be legal
Kama serikali ilithreaten watu ati itazima unregistered lines na fake phones na bado haijawai fanyika, mnadhani wataweza kufanya hivyo vyote?
You gotta be kidding me!
yo villagers kama mnafikiria that sirkal got no ears and eyes on all of us kaeni pale mletewe kiti. It is the duty of govt to spy on its people so that it can protect them better.