Kenyan court suspended Rology's teleradiology operations for exporting patient scans abroad without consent or licensing
Jun 12, 2026On June 12, 2026, Kenya's High Court (Milimani Constitutional and Human Rights Division), ruling on a petition by the Kenya Association of Radiologists, ordered the immediate suspension of Rology's Kenyan operations. The court found Rology had operated in over 40 public health facilities serving more than 60,000 patients without registering as a data controller/processor under Kenya's Data Protection Act, without Digital Health Act compliance, and without verifying that all reviewing radiologists held Kenyan licenses. Patient medical imaging (X-rays, CT scans, MRIs) with identifying metadata was transferred to Rology's Cairo-based cloud infrastructure without explicit patient consent. The court found violations of the constitutional rights to privacy, consumer protection, fair labor practices, and health, and ordered regulators to cancel any licenses issued to Rology for handling patient data.