What\’s Up New Policy
Ali:
Am GAME! You know MPESA is so well PRONOUNCED and studied in US IVY LEAGUE
Universities! Proudly KENYAN wa Kenya KIPENZI CHETU!
Baraka,
Maria
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maria
>
> 🙂 Yes. And creating an environment that can breed 10 more Safaricom like
> companies across all industries.
>
> Regards
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> *Ali Hussein*
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 3:43 PM maria@afrikaict <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Ndugu Ali:
>>
>> Asante for the article! Sawa, VERY RELUCTANTLY I give in! Basi we focus
>> on Safcom improving service delivery for citizens.
>>
>> Baraka,
>> Maria
>>
>> On Saturday, January 16, 2021, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Maria
>>>
>>> With all due respect, I don\’t subscribe to your point of view that
>>> Safaricom needs to be broken. Here\’s why:-
>>>
>>> 1. Cash transactions make up over 80% of all payment transactions in
>>> Kenya. So instead of wasting time discussing breaking up Safaricom why not
>>> fight cash instead?
>>>
>>> 2. There is solid competition in the country against Safaricom\’s Mpesa.
>>> They just need to step up. IPSL\’s Pesalink <www.ipsl.co.ke/>,
>>> owned by the Kenya Bankers\’ Association can be a solid bulwark against this
>>> hegemony.
>>>
>>> 3. There are enough tools at the disposal of the regulator to keep any
>>> player who abuses market power in check.
>>>
>>> You can also read further an article I wrote on this very subject back
>>> in 2019:-
>>>
>>> Safaricom \’dominance\’ and why we are missing the point
>>> <www.linkedin.com/pulse/safaricom-dominance-why-we-missing-point-ali-hussein-kassim/>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>
>>> Digital Transformation
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>>>
>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
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>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:34 PM maria@afrikaict <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great happenings! The customer has the muscle in the US! We were going
>>>> to all migrate from WhatsApp STRAIGHT to their competition!
>>>>
>>>> Ndugu Hussein, let’s join hands and BREAK UP SAFCOM! When we
>>>> liberalized telecom in the 90s no one expected Safcom to become such a HUGE
>>>> MONOPOLY! Not pushing envelope too far, but see now bundles roll over since
>>>> Gov. Kabogo took Safcom to court?
>>>>
>>>> In Kenya KIPENZI CHANGU/CHETU we let services precede LEGISLATION! We
>>>> took 15 years to pass the Computers Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018 as a
>>>> STAND ALONE LAW! USAID my former employer funded my company Afrika ICT
>>>> Strategies in 2005 to support Office of the President’s Directorate of
>>>> e-Government under Dr. Juma Okech, in creating the Kenya e-Transactions
>>>> Bill, 2005-2013!
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, Uganda, Rwanda our good jiranis overtook us, as the
>>>> preferred BPO and Call Center DESTINATIONS, by adopting our e-Government
>>>> Strategy, e-Transactions BILL………..
>>>>
>>>> Good weekend
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, January 16, 2021, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And looks like Facebook is hitting the breaks on this thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> WhatsApp delays privacy changes amind user backlash
>>>>> <www.linkedin.com/posts/alihkassim_whatsapp-delays-privacy-changes-amid-user-activity-6756054932576600064-qBfL>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Great to see a powerful company admit that they could have done a
>>>>> better job in communication changes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> #Techlash is real.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>>
>>>>> Digital Transformation
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>>>>
>>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>>
>>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>>
>>>>> LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>>> <ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are
>>>>> purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
>>>>> organizations that I work with.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:56 AM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Listers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WhatsApp privacy controversy leads company to take out full-page
>>>>>> adverts asking users to stay
>>>>>> for more click on this link
>>>>>> <www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/whatsapp-privacy-adverts-india-b1787443.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1610657280>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:10 PM Renee Kamau via kictanet <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Josiah,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You\’re right!
>>>>>>> Elon Musk said \’use Signal,\’ and confused investors sent the wrong
>>>>>>> stock up 438% on Monday
>>>>>>> <www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/signal-advance-jumps-another-438percent-after-elon-musk-fueled-buying-frenzy.html>
>>>>>>> \”Signal Advance, which reported receiving no revenue in 2015 and
>>>>>>> 2016, is now worth more than $3 billion.\”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apparently this also happened with Zoom a couple of years ago. \”…
>>>>>>> people bought shares of Zoom Technologies, whose ticker symbol was ZOOM but
>>>>>>> was not the trendy video-calling service Zoom Video Communications, which
>>>>>>> trades under the symbol ZM. Last year the U.S. Securities and Exchange
>>>>>>> Commission stopped trading of Zoom Technologies, partly because of
>>>>>>> confusion over its connection with Zoom Video.\”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 12:59 Josiah Mugambi via kictanet <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signal Advance Inc <www.signaladvance.com/> ( whose stock
>>>>>>>> went x11) has no relation with the Signal <signal.org/>
>>>>>>>> messaging platform.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As this is a tech policy group, this may be a useful read (less so
>>>>>>>> for a non tech person):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> medium.com/swlh/whatsapp-doesnt-read-your-
>>>>>>>> messages-it-doesn-t-need-to-7ce0ec2846f9
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> excerpt:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> \”End to end encryption is more about security than privacy. We are
>>>>>>>> protected against unknown actors but have no control over what known actors
>>>>>>>> will do.\”
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:04 AM Rawgee l.k via kictanet <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My take it could be more of under table business trade agreement
>>>>>>>>> between Whatsapp and Signal.
>>>>>>>>> After the announcement from Elon Musk [coincidentally the world\’s
>>>>>>>>> richest man] for guys to move to signal app the stock jumped to 1100%.
>>>>>>>>> Screenshot on the trade app overview.
>>>>>>>>> Intresting times both for data privacy and financial services.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 00:39 Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Those new terms from Facebook/WhatsApp are terrible. Bad for
>>>>>>>>>> privacy.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> To illustrate how good laws and punitive fines protect citizens,
>>>>>>>>>> Facebook has different rules for Europe. Because of GDPR, these new
>>>>>>>>>> changes do not appear in the European version of the updated terms and
>>>>>>>>>> conditions. Facebook later confirmed that the rules will not apply in the
>>>>>>>>>> EU, EEA, or the UK. digit.fyi/facebook-to-
>>>>>>>>>> access-whatsapp-user-data-except-in-europe/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It seems the rest of the world does not matter, even with Data
>>>>>>>>>> Protection laws available in countries like Kenya. Perhaps it is contempt
>>>>>>>>>> from Facebook for smaller jurisdictions (What will you do? attitude. –
>>>>>>>>>> Mtado?). This would be a good intray for the new Kenyan Data Commissioner.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> My take is that the new rules will not hurt WhatsApp in the long
>>>>>>>>>> run because of the phenomenon called Network Effect (the value or utility a
>>>>>>>>>> user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of
>>>>>>>>>> compatible products) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Those Church groups, Estate groups, Former school groups,
>>>>>>>>>> investment groups, … are not moving to Signal or Telegram. A few techie
>>>>>>>>>> groups and privacy-oriented groups may move, but my prediction is those are
>>>>>>>>>> the exceptions.
>>>>>>>>>> ______________________
>>>>>>>>>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>>>>>>>>>> www.linkedin.com/in/mwendwa-kivuva
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 22:31, David Indeje via kictanet <
>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Listers,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I think all apps have been sharing our data. It is only that
>>>>>>>>>>> Facebook has gone public, after all it also owns Instagram. What if it buys
>>>>>>>>>>> Signal for the Signalers?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 8:23 PM John Kariuki via kictanet <
>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Listers
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> What are your thoughts on the new terms of service and privacy
>>>>>>>>>>>> on What\’s Up? Facebook plans to share What\’s Up data with other Facebook
>>>>>>>>>>>> products starting from 8th February 2021.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Best regards,
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>>>>>>>
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