Kenya's Public Broadcaster Violated Employees' Privacy with Mandatory Facial Recognition Attendance, Court Found

Summary

Kenya's High Court found that the state-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation unlawfully collected employees' facial biometrics for mandatory attendance without informed consent or a prior data protection impact assessment. The broadcaster conceded the union's case. The court quashed the rollout and ordered deletion of collected data under regulatory supervision, including measures to ensure third parties retained no copies.

Developers

• Facial recognition system developers

Deployers

• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
• Facial recognition system deployers
• Employers

Harmed parties

• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation employees
• Journalists
• Biometric data subjects
• Privacy

Tags

• response