I got curious about Safaricom’s privacy policy so I did some digging.
Check section 4: https://t.co/kncu14DJ95
1. Safaricom will give your collected information to government agencies etc… This includes KRA BTW.
2. That’s cool until you see auctioneers in the list of the people that can request your information.
3. There’s also CRB not bad.
Part 4.5 stood out for me.
At first, they’ll ask for consent before sharing my information… cool?
Until I saw that 4.5 is talking about for marketing purposes not law enforcement.
This means… I don’t even want to imagine what this means. Because in section 4.2 (e) they can share your information with auctioneers?
What are they sharing? I hope it is just transaction details because Telcos know exactly where you are at a given time. Well they might be off by a few hundred metres but that’s enough to determine that you’re at a coffee shop.
I feel like I should be notified every time my information is requested. Even if it’s law enforcement. I know it’s not that easy. Picture this, law enforcement using this feature to track known terrorists. Notifying them would be unwise so it’s a good move. Now picture the other side of the coin. You’re just a government critic and the state uses law enforcement to track you down… yeah we’ve all seen how that ends. This requests should at least be backed by a court order.
I don’t know man, we might have to use mesh networks to communicate in the near future if this trend continues.