Originally posted at Wired FOR THE PAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data while simultaneously protecting user privacy. That secret weapon is “differential privacy,” a novel field of data science that focuses on carefully adding random noise to...
Sweeping reforms are set to take charge of European consumers’ online privacy and data concerns next spring, but the impact could be global — and a huge win for consumer privacy advocates. The regulation applies if the companies collecting or storing data are based in the European Union or deal...
The 2017 Affordability Report explores the policy progress made across 58 low- and middle-income countries. According to the report it does not provide a direct measure of affordability; rather, it scores all 58 countries based on an in-depth analysis of communications infrastructure and access and affordability indicators. Good scores...
Global Voices Over the last few months, the Indian twittersphere has been awash with citizens concerned about government websites leaking millions of individual digital ID numbers. On May 1, the Centre for Internet and Society, a multi-disciplinary think tank in Bangalore, released a report indicating that faulty information security practices have exposed as many as 135...
The European Commission will propose new measures in June to make it easier for police to access data on internet messaging apps like WhatsApp, EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová said yesterday (28 March), heeding calls from national interior ministers. Jourová said she will announce “three or four options” including...
Originally posted by Web Foundation Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the world wide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries. In many ways, the web has...
Originally published by CRD During the last decade, several laws that impinge on Internet freedom have been adopted in Uganda. While some of these laws are pure cyber laws that exclusively deal with the digital environment, other laws contain provisions that have far reaching effects on the scope of...
The tech giant’s no-frills app gives governments a version of the internet they can influence, if not totally control. NAIROBI — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise visit to Kenya and Nigeria in September saw him eat ugali fish with his hands and crash a Nollywood music video shoot in...
WhatsApp says it will begin sharing more data with Facebook and will start letting some companies send messages to users. It is the first time the company has changed its privacy policy since the firm was bought by Facebook in 2014. WhatsApp will now share users’ phone numbers with the...
Flaws in Apple’s iOS operating system have been discovered that made it possible to install spyware on a target’s device merely by getting them to click on a link. The discovery was made after a human rights lawyer alerted security researchers to unsolicited text messages he had received. They...
Biometric Machines Exasperate Voters in Uganda’s 2021 Elections
Blocking social media is a direct attack on democracy in Uganda, says Unwanted Witness Uganda.
Legalizing digital technology in Uganda’s electoral process, but are privacy rights and freedoms protected?
Unwanted Witness Condemns the Heinous Acts of Violence Against Journalists
Google must disregard the Government of Uganda’s requests intended to silence legitimate dissentCopyright © 2019, Unwanted Witness.