Posted by | May 20, 2012
Twitter Banned in Pakistan

Once again, Internet users in Pakistan have been slapped with a ban. Early in the day on May 20, 2012, Twitter users in Pakistan started encountering problems logging into their...

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Posted by | April 19, 2012
Constitutional Petition Accepted For  Fundamental Rights Online 

PRESS RELEASE On the 17th of April 2012, seven individuals, Awab Alvi, Sana Saleem, Faisal Kapadia, Nazim Haji, Naeem Sadiq, Noman Quadri and Ayesha Tammy Haq, through their advocates Haider...

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Posted by | April 10, 2012
We Support The Constitutional Petition for Protecting our Fundamental Rights Online

Cross Posting from Teeth Maestro   For quite sometime Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been blocking websites in Pakistan on the instructions of the Government, or otherwise, other than in accordance with the...

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Posted by | March 1, 2012
Censorship is big business, it should not be

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....

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Posted by | February 29, 2012
The Dangers of a Content Filtration System

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...

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