CCK trashes telecom users’ privacy with new spying rules

Telecommunications industry regulator, Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), is set to acquire a new set of powers that will give it unfettered access to private or confidential information on consumers without a court order.

The powers, which are contained in a new set of regulations that has been prepared for publication in the Kenya Gazette, allow the CCK or its agents the leeway to obtain information or data held by telecoms operators.