In Kenya’s fast-growing digital economy, personal data has become the invisible currency of everyday life. Every phone call, mobile money transaction, or social media interaction generates a trail of personal information much of it stored, shared, and repurposed by individuals, companies and institutions.
This explosion of data collection has brought convenience and also introduced new vulnerabilities that directly threaten individual safety, dignity, and privacy. The question we must now confront is simple yet profound: what data is enough?
