{"id":42205,"date":"2025-03-12T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42205"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:01:57","slug":"experts-warn-kenyas-maisha-namba-digital-id-discriminative-threatens-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/experts-warn-kenyas-maisha-namba-digital-id-discriminative-threatens-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn Kenya&#8217;s Maisha Namba digital ID discriminative, threatens privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kamau Muthoni<\/p>\n<p>Two experts have poured cold water on the Kenya Kwanza digital identification card project.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Laura Bingham, an international law expert, and Dr Thomas Fisher, a senior researcher at Privacy International in the UK, yesterday raised questions on the Maisha Namba programme launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On June 30, 2023, President William Ruto claimed that the initial project, Huduma Namba, which cost Kenyans Sh15 billion, was a fraud, adding that Kenyans got \u201clittle out of it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001513612\/experts-tell-court-maisha-namba-discriminative-threat-to-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001513612\/experts-tell-court-maisha-namba-discriminative-threat-to-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kamau Muthoni Two experts have poured cold water on the Kenya Kwanza digital identification card project. Prof Laura Bingham, an international law expert, and Dr Thomas Fisher, a senior researcher at Privacy International in the UK, yesterday raised questions on the Maisha Namba programme launched in 2023. On June 30, 2023, President William Ruto [&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-42205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42205","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=42205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42206,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42205\/revisions\/42206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}