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M-PESA to stop sharing full phone numbers with merchants, banks by end of 2026

By Ibrahim Modibbo MPhil. Ph.D.

March 21, 2026

Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecoms operator, plans to extend data minimisation across its mobile money service M-PESA by late 2026, expanding controls that limit the exposure of customer phone numbers in mobile money transactions…

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