Kenyan firms on the spot for sharing customer data

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From left: Equity Group head of data governance Patrick Kariuki, Absa Kenya chief data officer Hartnell Ndungi, Data Protection commissioner Immaculate Kassait, KCB head, information risk Wycliffe Momanyi and EY associate director, cybersecurity, privacy and trusted technology, Anthony Muiyuro during the launch of the EY Data Protection and Privacy Report yesterday. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA NMG

More than a fifth of Kenyan companies shared customers’ financial and personal information without the client’s consent in breach of data protection laws enacted two years ago.

A survey by consultancy Ernst & Young shows that 41 percent of firms transferred their clients’ data to third-party service providers.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.