The gang-rape of a woman on the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway in front of her children has shaken everyone. While men have sympathised and feel fearful for women they know – and...
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Posted by | September 11, 2020
October 6, 2020 - Samaa TV - Fake followers on social media and Disinformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTvhwCUi-o&feature=youtu.be October 02, 2020 - GeorgetownMSFS - Pandemic and World Order - Democracy and Governance Challenges...
Posted by | August 31, 2020
RECENT attempts to ban applications and the tradition of censoring content on the internet are rooted in a misunderstanding of the internet in policymaking and adjudication circles. There is a...
Posted by | July 18, 2020
Bolo Bhi traces content regulation over the years, starting with the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Evaluation of Websites (IMCEW) notified in 2006 to Section 37 of the Prevention of Electronic...
Posted by | July 3, 2020
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on July 1 blocked the online game PUBG on grounds of complaints received by various segments of society citing it to be “addictive, wastage of time...
Posted by | June 20, 2020
by Saihaj Shahbaz Butt On 10th June, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) made a press release confirming that they will be continuing their (Virtual Private Network) VPN registration process. If all...
Posted by | June 18, 2020
ON June 4, 2020, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) held a consultation on the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules 2020. While civil society groups boycotted it, standing by their...
Posted by | May 29, 2020
THE Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020, are back on the agenda. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) recently uploaded a survey titled Consultation Framework, seeking stakeholder input on the...
Posted by | May 28, 2020
Overview of the Comparative Analysis By Shumaila Hussain Shahani The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2020 was made available by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) on its...
Posted by | May 14, 2020
With so much of our personal data at the disposal of government authorities and private companies, it was about time that the government listened to citizen demands for a data...
