What Kenya's Data Protection Act Means for Your App

Kenya's Data Protection Act, 2019 sets out how personal data must be collected, stored, processed, and shared. It applies to any business processing the personal data of people in Kenya, whether the business itself is based locally or not.

In practice, this touches almost every piece of software a business runs: customer databases, e-commerce checkouts, mobile apps that collect location or contact data, even internal HR systems.

The core obligations are consistent with global data protection norms: collect only what you need, get clear consent, secure the data you hold, and be able to tell people what data you have on them and delete it on request.

We build compliance into the architecture of every system we ship, not as an afterthought bolted on before launch, so our clients aren't scrambling to retrofit consent flows or data retention policies after the fact.