How big the problem of digital surveillance is in Pakistan? Fairly alarming if the views expressed by citizens and experts during the first National Conference on Privacy Rights is anything to go by. As the first event of its kind expanding the post-Snowden digital security debate to Pakistan, participants ... Read More »
Increasing restrictions on online freedom of expression (FoE) in Pakistan is becoming order of the day as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), monitoring Internet, blocked a website of gay people. The PTA justified the move in the name of religion with its spokesman confirming the decision was taken upon ... Read More »
Tanvir Siddiqui (Not real name) calls himself a hacktavist (Hacking activist). He is the kind of geeky young man from Karachi who hacks into computer systems he claims for ethical reasons. He told me surveillance through internet had picked up in Pakistan after September 11 attacks. To show how ... Read More »
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