Kenyan Financial Firm Fined for Mishandling Data

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Publicated : 23/11/2024   Category : security


Kenyan Financial Firm Fined for Mishandling Data


Kenyan data protection regulator issues monetary penalties to multiple firms for improper handling of personal data.



The Kenyan Data Protection Commissioner has issued monetary penalties to multiple organizations over the mishandling of personal data.
Mulla Pride, a digital credit provider that operates the money lending apps KeCredit and Faircash, must pay 2,975,000 Kenyan shilling ($20,114) in fines for collecting names and contact information from a third party, without the users consent. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner announced the penalty

in a
notice on social media
.
Kenyan regulators also issued a penalty of 1,850,000 kenyan shilling ($12,508) to restaurant Casa Vera Lounge for posting customer images without consent on social media and fined Roma School 4,550,000 Kenyan shilling ($30,764) for publishing pictures of children without parental consent.
The Data Protection Commissioner said the penalties were issued in contravention of sections 62 and 63 of the
Data Protection Act 2019
, and regulation 20 and 21 of the
Data Protection (Compliants Handling Procedure and Enforcement) Regulation 2021
.
In the meantime, a compliance audit was also issued to digital credit provider WhitePath for
sending unsolicited
text messages, and to Naivas Supermarkets following its recent
data breach
.
The regulators have issued penalties in the past for
data handling complaints
and for
spam calls
.

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