{"id":30487,"date":"2020-12-10T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=30487"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T12:01:20","slug":"activists-sound-alarm-over-african-biometric-id-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/activists-sound-alarm-over-african-biometric-id-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists sound alarm over African biometric ID projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric ID systems are proliferating across Africa but without the appropriate protections for citizens, say activists.<\/p>\n<p>By Madeleine Speed<\/p>\n<p>In January this year, Kenya\u2019s High Court halted the roll-out of the country\u2019s controversial biometric ID, the Huduma Namba, citing the lack of a regulatory framework to protect the privacy of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Once distribution is complete before the end of 2021, Kenyans will need the ID \u2013 which holds their fingerprints, contact details and occupational information \u2013 to access government services. When asked in 2019 why the government was pursuing the project, Kenya\u2019s Information and Communication Technology Principal Secretary, Jerome Ochieng, responded, \u201cData is the new oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2020\/12\/10\/activists-sound-alarm-over-african-biometric-id-projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2020\/12\/10\/activists-sound-alarm-over-african-biometric-id-projects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biometric ID systems are proliferating across Africa but without the appropriate protections for citizens, say activists. By Madeleine Speed In January this year, Kenya\u2019s High Court halted the roll-out of the country\u2019s controversial biometric ID, the Huduma Namba, citing the lack of a regulatory framework to protect the privacy of citizens. Once distribution is complete [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-cote-divoire","region-ethiopia","region-ghana","region-kenya","region-pan-africa","region-senegal","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30488,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30487\/revisions\/30488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}