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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on November 25, 2014, 02:39:52 PM
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The timing is perfect: If the opposition cries foul, they will be promptly accused of playing politics with National Security!
Now exactly how will this work? Will these cameras require electricity? Can they see in the dark? How will they be maintained?
I ask these questions because this project has been rushed through without any studies being carried out. It is a major violation of privacy and may cause untold social problems. For example how will this information be used? Who has access? How long wiill the information randomly gathered be kept and what assurances are there that it will be destroyed after it is determined to be useless or reached the legal expiry date? How will innocent people be protected? A young girl from a conservative family caught entering a motel with her secret lover? An "adulterous" man or woman? Will these images end up on youtube? What are the penalties for abusing the information?
I believe this surveillance system requires its own act of parliament.
Mobile service provider Safaricom can now start installation of a Sh15 billion security surveillance system after signing an agreement with the Government on Tuesday.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku and Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore signed the agreement at Harambee House.
Safaricom is expected to complete the first phase of the project in four months.
The National Surveillance, Communication and Control System will cover Nairobi and Mombasa.
Safaricom is expected to install cameras in the two cities to provide real-time footage to the National Police Operations Centre.
Mr Ole Lenku said the surveillance project would greatly enhance security in the country by providing security agents with the capability to monitor and deter crime.
Mr Collymore said Safaricom will build the system over the next 18 months.
“Safaricom will build an intelligent solution that harnesses the power of technology to enable law enforcement officers effectively coordinate and deploy their resources in response to threats to national security and, indeed, emergency situations requiring the interplay of competencies from the National Police Service and various disaster response teams,” he said.
The project got approval in July from the National Assembly Administration and National Security committee at the conclusion of its investigation into the tender award to Safaricom that it was satisfied that due diligence was carried out.
The committee took up the matter following media reports in May that provoked public concern that Safaricom had been awarded the tender for the sensitive security system through direct procurement.
(READ: House team clears Safaricom security tender award)
Safaricom undertook to complete the project and hand over its operations to the National Police Service.
As part of the agreement, the Government will use the services at no cost for the first year and start paying for it in annual installments from 2016.
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unless they are sending some satellites in the sky and installing the cameras there this is a waste of time and money. will this camera cover the whole country? latest attack was in madera will that region be covered?
nothing beats common sense policing and community policing we need more police in the communities, we need more boots on the ground but not cameras
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If they work as they are supposed to!!!
This things are very expensive.
Also, is there legislation behind this as to how the data will be used?
Otherwise I think the courts will just put it in the trash.
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has there been any case solved through those blurred CCTV images in our MPesas.... is it possible to identify the strippers for example in those videos without a database
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Well, so they catch a robber on video, where does he/she live?
Do they have physical addresses yet?
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unless they are sending some satellites in the sky and installing the cameras there this is a waste of time and money. will this camera cover the whole country? latest attack was in madera will that region be covered?
nothing beats common sense policing and community policing we need more police in the communities, we need more boots on the ground but not cameras
Where police will arrest a suspect and let him go after a bribe, is the absence of cameras really the problem?
People have to eat.
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Which is why I think allowing them videos they can use for blackmail is the wrong way to go. There should be tough legislation and regulations on who has access to what and how long the information can be kept on filed and above all the proper permanent destruction of the same.
I propose that all information not subject to investigation or litigation be destroyed within six months. No information can be given out to anybody without proper authorization.