While progress seems limited in many parts of the world, this year’s Data Privacy Conference demonstrated Kenya’s growing maturity in digital governance. Two areas need the nation's attention, police and electoral data governance.

Recent reports reveal that digital technologies are being weaponized by states to suppress active citizens. If this threatens constitutional freedoms and risks undermining an open, thriving digital economy, how do we compel both states and telecom companies to uphold our right to privacy and free expression?

The public debate that generated last week’s WorldCoin column continued into this week with two significant new developments.

Barely a week after President William Ruto launched Kenya’s first data protection registration system on International Data Privacy Day,...