IN OCTOBER of 2015, I warned readers of the many dangers inherent to the deeply flawed and draconian Cybercrime Bill, Medialternatives was one of the first publications in the country to break the story, followed by an opinion piece written by mys...
Tag: Privacy
How Internet rights were included in our constitution
IT WAS in 1995 that I returned from self-imposed exile and America’s West Coast. Having launched what would be the very first online act of mass civil disobedience against John Major’s Criminal Justice Bill the previous year. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Whitehall were...
Reports of the death of communications privacy are greatly exaggerated
This is a guest post by Jane Duncan who is a member the Right 2 Know Campaign, a South African campaigns group that is a member of the Privacy International Network. On 23rd March the United Nations Human Rights Committee released its assessment on South Africa’s compliance with the International...
Nedbank’s Biometric Bungle exposes Personal Info Bill shortcomings.
South Africa's constitution may have guarantees against the invasion of one's body in addition to strong privacy protections, but corporations perceive a future in which article 12 and 14 will be amended by simple legislation. Nedbank for instance, has already installed biometric scanning equipme...
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