Kenya Government mandates DNA-linked national ID, without data protection law

It is deeply troubling that these amendments passed without public debate, and were approved even as a data protection bill which would designate DNA and biometrics as sensitive date is pending. Mozilla strongly believes that that no digital ID system should be implemented without strong privacy and data protection legislation. “Digital ID” systems, and especially those that involve sensitive biometrics or DNA, are not a necessary means of verifying identity, and in practice raise significant privacy and security concerns.

Source: blog.mozilla.org