- Unwanted Witness concerned over prolonged social media restriction in Uganda, says VPNs come with a lot of risks
- Privacy wins as Uganda’s data regulator finds data controller unlawfully disclosed data to third-party
- Unwanted Witness Condemns the Heinous Acts of Violence Against Journalists
- Blocking social media is a direct attack on democracy in Uganda, says Unwanted Witness Uganda.
Amplifying Voices, Changing Lives.
WHO WE ARE
Unwanted Witness was established in 2012 by a group of netizens, bloggers, activists, writers, and human rights defenders as an independent, non-partisan, and not-for-profit civil society organization. It seeks to create secure uncensored online platforms for activists, netizens, bloggers, freelance journalists, and writers to promote human rights through writing and informing, educating the citizenry who also utilize the platform for strengthening free expression and demand for accountability.
WHAT WE DO
MOST RECENT PROJECTS
Privacy Scorecard
Unwanted Witness in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has therefore introduced the inaugural Privacy Scorecard that seeks to encourage data collectors/processors adopt data protection best practices.
Legal Aid Lab
For good governance and human rights to thrive, the independent functioning of the media must be protected and legally defended. With financial support from Media Defense, Unwanted Witness brings justice to persecuted users of digital platforms.
Women@Web
Women need sufficient digital and media literacy to participate effectively in online discussions and to protect themselves from online gender-based violence. Addressing the challenges facing effective and active online participation of women.
ENGAGE WITH US
LATEST REPORTS
- The State of Digital Rights and Internet Governance in Uganda 2021
- Journalism Blocked, Information Seized
- Weak Legal and Institutional Framework: A Hindrance to Justice For Survivors pf Online Violence Against Women and Girls in Uganda.
- Trading Privacy for a Cheap Transport System
- NITA: Investigation Report into allegations of unlawful sharing of SafeBoda users’ data
- Uganda’s Digital ID System, A Cocktail of Discrimination
- State of Digital Rights in Uganda 2019
- Repressive Uganda’s Worst Cyber Laws
- State Of Surveillance In Uganda
- An Open Free and Secure Internet: A threat to Uganda’s National Security?
- Your Communication And Personal Data Are Not Safe Anymore
- State of Security for HRDs In a Digital Era
EVENTS
Webinar: Unpacking Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 and the Role of Stakeholders
This webinar sets out to provide a practical approach to ensuring data protection accountability in data collecting/processing organizations and what the DPPA means to Data subjects, Regulators, and Data collectors.
Report Launch: State of Digital Rights and Internet Governance
The report explorea the loopholes within the national legal and policy framework which are; perpetrating surveillance, personal data, and privacy intrusion, arrests, kidnaps, online Censorships that limit the development of good Internet governance principles.
W@W Online Debate
Over the last thirty years women’s rights organizations, journalists, activists, and feminists have used Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), including the internet and social media to access and share critical information about their rights, organize and mobilize for activism and engage in advocacy.
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