Nairobi, Aug. 9 -- The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) recently published a set of guidance notes on the use of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy enhancing technologies such as encryption.

The guidelines come at a time when the adoption of these technologies is growing significantly, particularly in the private sector where investment in digital technologies has been rising in recent years.

In its guidance note on AI the ODPC acknowledges that the nature of AI systems introduce new data protection challenges that existing regulations do not fully address.

This includes the opacity of algorithmic models, the risk of discrimination from biased training data, the reduction of human ...