It is now approximately 305 days since former Makerere University researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi was detention at Luzira prison for a Facebook post that was deemed offensive to the person of President Yoweri Museveni. It is the first cyber criminal offence in Uganda to undergo full trial for allegedly...
Kampala, July 19th, 2019; Uganda Law Society (ULS) has assumed the role of online content regulation after ordering one of its members to remove the Facebook post on allegations of offending a public official. In a letter dated July 17, 2019, the president of Uganda Law society, Simon Peter...
Evangelist Joseph Kabuleta’s incarceration for allegedly insulting members of the family once more reminded Ugandans of a legislation that is an existential threat to freedoms of speech and expression- The Computer Misuse Act. The law has been on Uganda’s statute books since 2011. Case after case have been brought...
By Richard Walusimbi While Chinese telecom giant Huawei is being crippled by the Donald Trump administration, in Uganda and generally most parts of Africa, it’s entrenching it’s self-further without any deterrence. Despite protests, the US insists that Huawei, the number two smartphone brand, is a security risk. Trump’s...
May/15TH /2019 Unwanted Witness has noticed a report done by CNN therein detailing how WhatsApp has been penetrated by hackers to the extent they could have access to its users’ phones. The most interestingly account of this report, is that WhatsApp which is an encrypted messaging service, owned by...
As things stand now at least every major road in Uganda’s capital Kampala has a CCTV camera installed. The system that controls all these camera is manned by a police force which has been frequently accused by citizens of clamping down on dissent. Government argues that the system is...
DERRICK KIYONGA The video conferencing system between Buganda Road court and Luzira maximum prison was on Monday in a grandeur ceremony. Bart Katureebe, the Chief Justice, showed how he is still focused on his ambitious agenda: transforming the judiciary via ICT. This effort is a follow up of what...
It’s approximately seven months ever since Uganda launched its multi-billion facial recognition surveillance system but generally women don’t feel comfortable with the system which was instituted at least in theory to stem urban crime. From catalogue of interviews Unwanted Witness has conducted with ordinary women and others in civil...
When the Ugandan government was introducing social media tax last year, it had two intentions as laid out by President Museveni: to curtail freedom of speech, which he framed as “gossip”, and also adding revenues to supposedly boost the ailing economy. Seven months after the tax came into force...
The unbridled collection and retention of personal data in Uganda’s telecommunication sector began in 2013 with the mandatory SIM Card registration process. Same data was later merged with data that was collected under the National Identity Card system in early 2018. These processes deposited large volumes of subscribers’ personal...
Online Spying Threatening Users
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Unwanted Witness publish a briefing for election observers on the importance of privacy and data protection in the election cycle.
Injured journalist Ashraf Kasirye allowed to file additional allegations against gov’t
Court adjourns injured journalist Ashraf Kasirye’s case hearing against State over the absence of Attorney GeneralCopyright © 2021, Unwanted Witness.