Tag: Business & Human Rights

The South African government is considering a draft bill that, as written, undermines the rights to privacy, lacks transparency, and chills security research and online expression.

Europe’s highest human rights court ruled that Turkey violated internet users’ right to freedom of expression when it banned YouTube between 2008 and 2010.

Digital Citizen brings you the latest news, policy, and research on human rights in the Arab World. This special issue focuses on refugees and technology.

After the Paris attacks, France made changes to its laws. Here’s our detailed analysis of those changes and what they mean for human rights.

Here are the issues we’re reflecting on as we look ahead to RightsCon, our signature conference that gathers digital rights activists, companies, government officials, technologists, and academics from all over the world.

MTN Nigeria was fined a record $5.2 billion for providing services to users with unregistered SIM cards, protecting their anonymity. We stand with MTN in its efforts to meet its responsibility to respect human rights.

Yesterday, authorities in Dhaka, Bangladesh shut down some internet services for several hours, including blocking access to Facebook, Whatsapp, and Viber. Service was later restored, but key services remain offline. The latest shutdown in Dhaka shows worrying backsliding to the use of internet shutdowns as a blunt instrument to deal with threats to national security. It also solidifies the South Asia region as a hub for these intentional disruptions, given that Pakistan and the Indian provinces of Gujarat and Kashmir have also chosen to disrupt networks in the past few months. Worse, it looks as though lawmakers around the world are seeing threats to national security as a justification for undermining the open internet.