JUST IN: Lawyer Challenges Data Protection Commissioner’s Authority to Hear Privacy Violation Cases 

  A petitioner has challenged the authority of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to hear and determine cases involving violations of personal data and privacy rights. In an urgent petition, Henry Stephen Arunda, a Nairobi-based lawyer, argued that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has unlawfully assumed the jurisdiction of the High Court in matters concerning fundamental rights and freedoms. According to Arunda, the Data Protection Commissioner’s powers to investigate and make determinations on privacy rights are unconstitutional. “The unconstitutional powers of the Data Protection Commission to investigate and make determinations on the right to privacy are akin to amending
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