Authoritarian regimes around the world have used surveillance to regulate and control public spheres. Western surveillance tools have empowered the repression. We need to stop censorship from being big business....
Posted by | March 1, 2012
On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, the ICT R&D fund under the Ministry of Information Technology, announced through newspapers and on their website, a request for proposal for a national...
Posted by | March 1, 2012
Efforts have been made by governments around the world, both authoritarian and democratic, to shut down Web sites, silence bloggers, filter out certain words or censor negative information.In order to highlight the...
Posted by | February 29, 2012
What would happen if a content filtration system such as the one The National ICT R&D Fund has advertised seeking proposals for were put in place? How would it affect the privacy...
Posted by | February 29, 2012
The Constitution of Pakistan Pakistan Penal Code 1860 Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 Electronic Transactions Ordinance 2002 Pakistan Telecommunications (Re-Organization) Act 1996 with 2006 Amendments Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002...
Posted by | February 28, 2012
Block, ban, censor. These seem to be the only options ever considered by the Pakistan government when it comes to the Internet. Ever since the 2010 ban on Facebook was...
Posted by | February 27, 2012
Background: 'Firms Aided Libyan Spies', Wall Street Journal: August 30, 2011, article here 'Spy Companies & Their Authoritarian Customers, Part 1: FinFisher And Amesys', Electronic Frontier Foundation: February 16, 2012,...
Posted by | February 27, 2012
We, at Bolo Bhi, wrote to the CEOs of 8 companies last week asking them to publicly commit not to apply for this license. They wrote to: John Chambers,, CEO,...
Posted by | February 27, 2012
This article was originally published on Newsline's blog on May 8, 2011 Mass censorship? As the LHC considers to place a ban on Facebook (again), people wonder where the censorship...
Posted by | February 25, 2012
This article was the cover story of the June 2010 issue of Newsline. On May 20, a few people organised a press conference at the Karachi Press Club to...
