South Africa
EU Contributes €4M to UNESCO’s Expanding Online Content Regulation and Digital ID Goals
The EU and UNESCO deepen their collaboration to regulate online content and shape digital governance policies.
Google app update reveals future digital ID features
Digital driving licenses to present at TSA checkpoints.
Bank Of England collaborates with MIT to research state controlled digital currencies
Part of a broader developing conversation.
South Africa enforces sweeping internet censorship law to tackle “hate speech”
And who decides what’s “hate speech?”
Facebook to face South African lawmakers over “misinformation”
The hearing will take place this month.
Governments increasingly use the idea of COVID “misinformation” to suppress speech and dissent
It’s happening all over the world.
Twitter reverses after suspending major South African news outlet over Bill Gates article
Twitter also suspended the journalists.
South Africa’s Internet Censorship Bill will deal a massive blow to free speech
The new proposals seek to regulate “harmful content.”
MembersCovid-19 ushers in a new wave of privacy and free speech threats
?Civil liberties have suffered major setbacks.
Web host Linode’s response to false DMCA notice censored investigative journalism
The DMCA is one of the biggest threats to free speech online.
South African government admits conducting mass surveillance on all communications
The surveillance was supposedly designed to cover information about organized crime and acts of terrorism.