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| Ms Gladys Kanini registers for the Huduma Number’s National Integrated Identity Management Systems at Manyatta marketplace inwards Embu County yesterday. [Standard ] |
On 18th of Feb 2019, the Registration of Kenyans nether the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMIS) started inwards xv counties on airplane pilot basis, making Republic of Kenya dwelling to the most privacy-invasive national ID organization inwards the world. NIIMIS instantly requires all Kenyans, immigrants, in addition to refugees to plough over their DNA, GPS coordinates of their residential address, retina scans, iris pattern, vocalism waves, in addition to earlobe geometry earlier beingness issued critical identification documents or accessing authorities services.
If the threat of losing your online privacy has yous worried, registration of Kenyans nether the national integrated administration organization ( niimis )should convey yous absolutely freaked out. It is deeply troubling that the Republic of Kenya Parliament passed a seriously concerning amendment to the country’s national ID law without world debate, in addition to were approved fifty-fifty equally a information protection pecker which would designate deoxyribonucleic acid and biometrics equally sensitive information is pending.
It is of import to banking concern complaint that inwards the close future, it may non hold upward hard for individual amongst access to your deoxyribonucleic acid information to brand a expert approximate nearly your ethnicity, your peel color, your propensity to obesity, addiction, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit disorder, early onslaught cancer, or Parkinson's, Huntington's, or Alzheimer's disease, non to get upward the identity of your existent father, siblings or kids.
Given Kenya's history of politicization of Ethnic Identity in addition to corruption, collecting this information inwards a centralized database similar NIIMIS could reproduce in addition to exacerbate patterns of discrimination, identity theft, majority surveillance, etc
To brand matters worse, dissimilar your credit carte number, genetic information is, amongst a footling help from social media, potentially self-identifying—even anonymous genetic data, equally a grouping of computational biologists from MIT proved inwards a recent study. Yaniv Erlich in addition to his students were able to role easily available, world information to seat anonymous volunteers who had contributed their genetic information to a database for scientific research. Disturbingly, the clues that led scientists to the identities of the anonymous donors came from information uploaded to the Web non yesteryear the donors themselves, merely yesteryear relatives equally distant equally a mo cousin, in 1 lawsuit removed.
I urge the authorities of Republic of Kenya to suspend the implementation of NIIMiS and supply sufficient world struggle in addition to meaningful appointment to cause upward one's heed how such a organization should hold upward Implemented if at all. Also, I promise the Kenyan members of parliament volition act swiftly to pass the Data Protection Bill of 2018.
Silvano Ngacha is a passionate blogger good versed inwards Cloud Solutions, Business Intelligence,Web designing in addition to development, Search Engine Optimization in addition to Social Media Marketing. He honey to write posts for his weblog inwards his spare time. Besides Blogging, he is interested inwards career guidance, reading, socializing, traveling in addition to Equus caballus riding.
Silvano Ngacha is a passionate blogger good versed inwards Cloud Solutions, Business Intelligence,Web designing in addition to development, Search Engine Optimization in addition to Social Media Marketing. He honey to write posts for his weblog inwards his spare time. Besides Blogging, he is interested inwards career guidance, reading, socializing, traveling in addition to Equus caballus riding.