A dangerous Bill is quietly making its way through the National Assembly, threatening to upend digital privacy and freedom of expression in Kenya.
Disguised as a move toward billing transparency, the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill, 2025, sponsored by Aldai MP Marianne Kitany, proposes sweeping reforms that could hand the government real-time access to our online lives.
At the heart of the Bill is a proposal to introduce a metered billing system for internet users.
Each subscriber would be assigned a unique, trackable meter number, capable of monitoring real-time usage and converting it into detailed, itemised logs.
