What does Kenya · Data Protection Act 2019 cover?

Security safeguards & 72-hour breach notice. It applies to: Controllers under Kenya's DPA.

What does the Regulayer pack for Kenya · Data Protection Act 2019 prove?

Breach records, accountability signals, and DPIA references. The record is signed and tamper-evident, and anyone can verify it free, without an account.

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Kenya · Data Protection Act 2019

Security safeguards & 72-hour breach notice.

Applies to: Controllers under Kenya's DPA. Built · in force

What the signed record shows

Breach records, accountability signals, and DPIA references.

The proof is a signed, tamper-evident record. Anyone can check it, free, without an account, and nothing has to leave the building to make it. Evidence, not a promise.

Citation: DPA 2019 (Act No. 24) s.25/31/41/43

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What the statute requires, section by section

The Data Protection Act, 2019 (Kenya), Act No. 24 of 2019. Regulator: the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC). Provisions addressed:

s. 43: Notification of breach to the Data Commissioner without delay, within; 72 hours of becoming aware, and to affected data subjects; a processor notifies the controller within 48 hours.
s. 41: Security safeguards / data protection by design and default.
s. 25: Principles of data protection (lawfulness, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity/confidentiality, accountability).
s. 31: Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for high-risk processing. Commenced 25 November 2019.

Taken from the Regulayer entry for this instrument, which is built against the primary text.