Online Policing

Vietnamese government is using its new digital laws to crack down on dissenters

The authorities have passed a raft of legislations and are deploying the state machinery to go after people who have criticised the government on social media.

Sen Nguyen, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Jan 02, 2023 · 09:30 pm
‘Anything could be a crime’: A snitching app in Saudi Arabia is being used to crack down on dissent

Saudi government apps are seen as encouraging citizen spies.

Nazih Osseiran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Sep 15, 2022 · 09:30 pm
Uganda is reinterpreting old laws and creating new ones to restrict digital activism

From laws on defamation to terror, the African state has twisted legality to allow itself to probe, watch and arrest without warrant.

Ronald Kakungulu-Mayambala, The Conversation
· Sep 11, 2019 · 11:30 pm

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