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October 16, 2015

Use of Secret Surveillance in Uganda is Unjust.

PRESS STATEMENT Kampala, 16/October/2015, Unwanted Witness Uganda is welcoming the new investigative report revealing the government of […]
October 16, 2015

Ugandan government deployed FinFisher spyware to ‘crush’ opposition, track elected officials and media in secret operation during post-election protests, documents reveal

Privacy International’s new report, For God and My President: State Surveillance in Uganda, exposes the secret surveillance operation […]
October 16, 2015

Uganda’s grand ambitions of secret surveillance

  BREAKING: FOR GOD & MY PRESIDENT “We are saddened by these findings and we demand […]
October 14, 2015

Learn the basics about all that creepy spy tech that police around the US are now using

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new Law Enforcement Technology Primer for Civilian Oversight Bodies is a short, easy-to-understand guide […]
October 10, 2015

The Snowden effect: new privacy wins await after data transfer ruling

Many politicians held their nose and voted for the USA Freedom Act in June, hoping that the Snowden revelations would […]
October 6, 2015

A planned new law will criminalize Social Media and its users

A planned new law will criminalize Social Media and its users, Says Unwanted Witness Uganda. Kampala, […]
October 6, 2015

UW News Brief: A new Law to Control Social Media usage in Uganda

The Unwanted Witness (UW) News Brief: Uganda government is planning to introduce a new law to […]
October 5, 2015

Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security

Dear Mark Zuckerberg, We, the undersigned, share a common concern about the launch and expansion of […]
September 22, 2015

Emails Reveal Uganda Government Role In Mass Surveillance

SAN FRANCISCO — On the afternoon of April 22, Dotan Peltz, the head of sales at […]
September 14, 2015

European Parliament Condemns Mass Surveillance, Shames Complicity With NSA, And Demands Encryption, Net Neutrality, Free/Open Software In New Report

The European Parliament just adopted a report that goes way further in the right direction than […]
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