Mandate of the Office - OFFICE OF THE DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER KENYA

Mandate of the Office

The mandate of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner derived from the Data Protection Act 2019 and includes;

1

Personal Data

Regulation

Regulate the processing of personal data;

2

Personal data

Processing

Ensure that the processing of personal data of a data subject is guided by the principles set out in section 25 of the Act;

3

Privacy

Protection

Protect the privacy of individuals;

4

The Legal and Institutional

Mechanism

Establish the legal and institutional mechanism to protect personal data; and

5

Rights and Remedies

Provision

Provide data subjects with rights and remedies to protect their personal data from processing that is not in accordance with the Act