Immaculate Kassait is Kenya’s first Data Commissioner after the country came up with the Data Protection Act as it sought to tackle the emerging problem of privacy in the age of information.
In this interview, Ms Kassait, who spent years at the Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission (IEBC) and the Federation of Women Lawyers of Kenya (Fida), reveals the challenges of starting an institution from scratch, especially during the pandemic year when international travels had been restricted and so they could not do benchmarking.
