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Global Voices
Image by Mr_Achraf taken on August 17, 2021. Free to use, no attribution required (CC0) Unwanted Witness, a Uganda-based civil society organisation, in its 2021 report on privacy revealed inconsistencies in the privacy policy of the telecoms companies Airtel and MTN, financial services firms such as Stanbic Bank, and the insurance company Old Mutual. The data protection and privacy policies of these pan-African companies operating in Uganda significantly differs from their policies in other parts of the continent. Dorothy Mukasa, CEO of Unwanted Witness, told Global Voices in a Zoom interview …