THE principles of the Electronic Transactions and Electronic Commerce Bill, which seeks to regulate electronic transactions and mitigate cybercrime in the face of increasing digitisation of the economy, was given Cabinet approval this week.
The approval comes amid growing concern to attune the country’s legal framework to technological changes by addressing the current deficiencies in most of the country’s existing laws, which were designed for paper transactions.
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