By the Unwanted Witness team; Have you ever thought of spending hours or even a day without a cell phone? Well, Mobile phones are no longer luxuries but they are daily part of our lives and with the current internet enabled mobile (smart) phones, one can easily get connected...
#Internet4Ug By the Unwanted Witness team; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now an irreplaceable tool in society given the number of people going online to conduct everyday activities such as business and banking, education, seeking employment, civic engagements and forming and maintaining social relationships. For many of us,...
By the Unwanted Witness Uganda has experienced decades of civil strives especially as a result of power struggling during regime change. This greatly jeopardized the security of the country and individuals. For almost thirty years now since the overthrow of the Obote government by the National Resistance Army in...
By the Unwanted Witness When Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook announced the launch of internet.org on 21st August 2013, such a development was seen as a change maker in the sector and brought smiles on faces of many citizens in Africa. A continent with the highest...
PRESS STATEMENT Kampala, 16/October/2015, Unwanted Witness Uganda is welcoming the new investigative report revealing the government of Uganda’s grand ambitions of secret surveillance. The report released by Privacy International in UK titled “For God and My President” highlights the various actions that were undertaken by the various security agencies to install and infiltrate communication...
Privacy International’s new report, For God and My President: State Surveillance in Uganda, exposes the secret surveillance operation and the government’s attempts to buy further powerful surveillance tools, including a national communications monitoring centre and intrusion malware, in the absence of a rigorous legal framework governing communications surveillance. The report traces...
BREAKING: FOR GOD & MY PRESIDENT “We are saddened by these findings and we demand that the Kampala government should come out to explain why it is resorting to secret surveillance when citizens are yearning for service delivery with some starving to death. It’s a shame our leaders...
Data, data everywhere and companies sucking it up at breakneck speed, sometimes without rhyme or reason, just feeding the big data collection machine. A few years ago in an interview with Forbes, Tim O’Reilly famously said, “The Guy With The Most Data Wins.” It seems his statement was prescient, or...
By Francis Emorut KAMPALA – As Uganda readies for general elections due early next year, a Makerere University senior law lecturer is concerned that cyber hacking into information related to campaign strategies is poised to increase. Read More http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/670548-hacking-into-campaign-data-poised-to-rise.html
As Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate international women’s day, the Unwanted witness Uganda and women of Uganda Network are concerned about the increasing cyber violence and its harmful effects on women, which vice is likely to scare off women’s participation online. Currently the number of...
Surveillance, censorship threaten Internet freedom and Democracy in Uganda, says Unwanted Witness
An Open Letter To Google
Trading Privacy For Cheap Transport System
Police’s Mandatory access to personal data from hotels constitutes a data breach, says Unwanted Witness Uganda.
Ratify the Malabo Convention, a call to Government of Uganda as we mark the Human Rights Day, 2019
Surveillance, censorship threaten Internet freedom and Democracy in Uganda, says Unwanted Witness
An Open Letter To Google
Trading Privacy For Cheap Transport System
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