A section of human rights activists in Mombasa have substantively raised concerns over rampant cases of breach of data privacy and challenged the Office of Data Protection Commissioner ODPC to move with speed and enforce the law governing public and personal data privacy in the country.

Coast Human Rights Network Programs Director Micheal Magak and his counterpart and Executive Director for Youth Caucus Mr Evans Momanyi said the breach has caused more harm than good to many kenyans and even led to loses of life and businesses. 

Momanyi, argues reputation of several families and homes have been damaged and many marriages broken as a result of abuse of the law regarding data privacy and protection, and asked the government to considerr data privacy and protection , a fundamental human right issue. 

"We are saying as concerned citizens and human right defenders that the governmsnt should assure us of safety of our data privacy and those officers suspected to be part of the breach should face the law accordingly " said Momanyi 

Magak on the other hand said the matter should be about data protection particularly in the financial sector where a substantial number of customers confidential data have deliberately been leaked to the public without their consent. 

"Thats why we think the Data Protection Commissioner should act with speed and deal with the problem of data privacy breaches and also assure the public that the government is doing everything possible to safe guard every Kenyan rights to data privacy" Mr Magak added as he called on the government ti develop clear policies in regard to individual data privacy and protection. 

The activists further asked the Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait to emphasize more now on public awareness campaigns through sensitization of kenyans about the roles of the office and its mandate in the protection of privacy of their personal data. 

A number of cases of data privacy and confidentiality breach have widwidely beenn reported with the financial sector, banks in particular where customers have raiaed complains against certain bank staff suspected of breaching customer confidentiality by leaking data information to the public without their consent.