Archive · November 2025
The 3 archive entries on developments from November 2025.
A year after Ethiopia enacted the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No.
At a media briefing on 13 November 2025, Information Regulator Chairperson Adv Pansy Tlakula disclosed enforcement notices against Blouberg Municipality, Lancet Laboratories and FT Rams Consulting, a settlement with WhatsApp that is to be made an order of court, ongoing litigation against the Department of Basic Education over the matric results, and the Regulator's intention to seek a court ruling on whether telemarketing falls under POPIA section 69. The briefing set out a docket that shows POPIA's practical scope is increasingly being determined through litigation rather than through the Regulator's own guidance.
Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2025 was assented on 15 October 2025 and came into force on 4 November 2025, making Kenya one of East Africa's first jurisdictions with a standalone virtual asset statute. Supervision under the Act splits between the CBK, which covers issuance and custodial services, and the CMA, which covers exchanges, brokers and trading platforms.
Enforcement decisions, new laws and regulatory movement across African jurisdictions, in one brief. Free, and built to be forwarded to the colleague who needs it.
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