Posted by | September 24, 2013
Urgent Appeal – UK Based Company Involved In Human Rights Violations In Pakistan

His Excellency Mr Adam Thomson High Commissioner for Britain Diplomatic Enclave, Ramna 5 Islamabad, Pakistan P. O. Box 1122 Telephone: (011 92 51) 201-2000 September 23, 2013 Subject: Letter to His...

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Posted by | September 20, 2013
To the Government: Do YOU have something to hide?

The very term "inviolable"  (as claimed under Article 14 of Pakistan's constitution) suggests that the right of privacy is something that can neither be broken nor be contested. Yet, as...

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Posted by | September 10, 2013
You Privacy is Your Right Not A Privilege

How I wish I got a penny for each time I heard the argument “.. but you see we don’t deserve freedom of speech because we are an intolerant lot.....

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Posted by | September 9, 2013
Canadian Government Responds To Netsweeper’s Presence In Pakistan

Thurday, 5 Sept, 2013:  Government of Canada responded to our letter, sent on the 23rd of July 2013, which raised the issue of Netsweeper, a Canadian company, that sells technology...

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Posted by | August 2, 2013
Calling All Citizens: [free] Hackathon4Privacy

Hackathon Overview: Freedom of speech and expression are listed as fundamental rights in our constitution, so is the right to privacy, yet we hear about them in closed selective discussions...

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Posted by | July 22, 2013
Understanding how HTTPS works with Ahmed, Bilal & Uncle Tipu

The Internet is inherently collaborative in nature. Every time your computer needs to talk to another computer somewhere in the world, it breaks up the message into smaller manageable chunks...

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Posted by | June 11, 2013
Pakistan: Civil Society Condemns NSA Surveillance & Data Collection

We the undersigned strongly condemn the collection and surveillance of Pakistani citizens’ online communications and activities by the Government of the United States of America under its National Security Agency’s...

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Posted by | June 10, 2013
Civil Society Statement to the Human Rights Council on the impact of State Surveillance on Human Rights addressing the PRISM/NSA case

We express strong concern over recent revelations of surveillance of internet and telephone communications of US and non-US nationals by the government of the United States of America and the...

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Posted by | May 28, 2013
Keep Your Children Safe Online

The recent kidnapping of a 13-year old Mustafa has brought attention to the issues of digital security. The most common and worrying reaction, from parents, has been to restrict their...

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Posted by | May 13, 2013
Your personal information should not be up for grabs

As offline protests continue against rigging in the polls, social media in Pakistan has also been taken by a storm. So enraged are voters and supporters, that they have been...

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