Hustler Fund and the data protection implications
The PIN is required to authenticate the owner of the Hustler Fund account
where the loan will be disbursed.
www.the-star.co.ke/news/realtime/2022-12-01-why-m-pesa-pin-is-required-to-access-hustler-fund-loan/
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 17:53 Alex Watila <[email protected]> wrote:
> probably poor capacity planning.
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> maybe they exhausted the number of bulk SMSes they ordered
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> media is reporting that 1.14 million Kenyans registered (they would have
> had to have ordered bulk smses in excess of that) and so far KES 408
> Million has been disbursed
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> I don’t think they are charging on the client side (it looks toll-free and
> is not even eaten by fuliza) – it was probably part of the agreement that
> the government had with the providers that wanted to be part of the fund
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> Regards,
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 5:29 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Listers,
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>> I just tried in the morning to register through *254# which accepted and
>> indicated that they will respond after 2 hours. Now in the evening, there
>> is no response.
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>> Data infringement is on the loose; were my data rights accessed? The cost
>> for the process is Kshs 10; if 1 million tried the process and are waiting.
>> Who benefits from the revenue generated by the SMS?
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>> *Rapudo Hawi | **Team Lead **|** Director*
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>> +254(0) 720975498 | www.kijijiyeetu.co.ke
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>> Catholic Nurses Association- Diani Rd, Nairobi
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>> *From:* KICTANet
>> KICTANet
>> *Sent:* Thursday, December 1, 2022 5:08 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Cc:* Victor Kapiyo <[email protected]>; Alex Watila <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Hustler Fund and the data protection
>> implications
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>> I tried to get the terms and conditions from the link given on mobile and
>> something else showed up.
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>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, 16:44 Walubengo J via KICTANet, <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> @ Alex,
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>> I am still stuck on this statement:
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>> >>>i am still not convinced a citizen can demand privacy from the
>> government since the basics of government >>>is that citizens ceded private
>> rights in return for the public good (Hobbes theory of government)
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>> I don’t know who ‘Hobbes’ is or was but please avoid him or her 😉
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>> Your right to privacy is baked into your 2010 Constitution and even the
>> government should not take it away. Emphasis is of course on ‘should not’ –
>> the fact that most governments regularly do and violate citizen privacy
>> should never, ever be normalized.
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>> walu
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>> —
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>> On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 11:31:57 AM GMT+3, Alex Watila via
>> KICTANet <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> in terms of data privacy the government has legitimate right to access
>> your information since you require them to provide you with services
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>> i am still not convinced a citizen can demand privacy from the government
>> since the basics of government is that citizens ceded private rights in
>> return for public good (Hobbes theory of government)
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>> in terms of mpesa pin i doubt it leaves mpesa. GoK is just using an
>> existing platform (shared services concept we have been pushing) to deliver
>> a public good
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>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 10:20 tevin mwenda via KICTANet <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Dear listers,
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>> The Kenyan Government launched the much hyped hustler fund a digital
>> lending platform. Credit will be accessible through various lending
>> platforms such as M-PESA. Out of curiosity I can not help but wonder what
>> are the data protection implications of the system. For example what data
>> will be used as baseline to determine your credit worthiness. Is it data
>> held by government, credit reference bureaus, the lending companies or we
>> are starting from scratch ? Who will be the main data controller of the
>> data collected is it government is it the companies. If it’s the government
>> how much data will they have on Kenya and their credit worthiness and what
>> are the implications of that. Who will store this data? Are their any data
>> sharing agreements in place between the entities involved. What data
>> subject rights have been provided and does the consumer understand them? It
>> will be intresting to see how this develops and the discussion from a data
>> protection perspective.
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>> nation.africa/kenya/news/game-changer-president-unveils-hustler-fund-today-4037806
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>> —
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>> Kind Regards
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>> Tevin Mwenda Gitonga
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