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Kenya wants to sell data, here’s what it can’t sell and why
Allowing the commercial sale of personal information could expose citizens to profiling, discrimination, financial fraud, identity theft and unwanted surveillance.
Kenya’s plan to sell data collected via eCitizen and other State agencies is opening a new debate about the value of information in the digital economy and the limits to what public institutions can do with it.
At the centre of the proposal is a planned data marketplace where businesses, researchers, investors and innovators would be able to access datasets generated by government agencies.
