Data commissioner pokes holes in Bill on ethnicity

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Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait at a past event on March 29, 2023. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has rejected a section of a Bill which seeks to compel parastatals, public entities, and constitutional commissions to collate and process employee details and ethnicity.

Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait says the Public Service (Values and Principals) (Amendment) Bill, 2023, contains provisions that will reveal personal data that should not be exposed to third parties.

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