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Digital Rights Foundation condemns blackmailing and harassment of students at Balochistan University

CCTV cameras installed on campuses were used to illegally monitor, sexually harass, and blackmail students at the University of Balochistan in Pakistan.

Human rights groups demand an end to communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir

66 women’s rights, human rights, digital rights, and feminists groups endorse statement on internet blackout in Kashmir.

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Will Pakistan’s ‘Personal Data Protection Bill’ uphold user rights?

The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has opened the bill for public consultation

Supporters of a coalition of hard-line religious parties gather at a rally at Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan 13 May 2018, Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Open letter to Twitter on curbing misinformation ahead of Pakistan elections

Digital Rights Foundation is urging Twitter to stop misinformation, abuse and trolling on its platform.

Pakistani civil society activists light candles to pay tribute to the late human rights activist Asma Jahangir in Karachi, 12 February 2018 , ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images

Mourning the death of feminist icon Asma Jahangir

Asma Jahangir was a prominent human rights activist and feminist lawyer in Pakistan.

A woman from the Shiite ethnic minority Hazara community works on a computer at an eatery in Hazara Town, a neighbourhood in Quetta, Pakistan, 2 November 2017, BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images

New report takes a hard look at digital (in)security of journalists in Pakistan

Digital Rights Foundation’s new report explores the levels of digital threats that journalists face, records their experiences of online insecurity, and flags needed protections from the journalists’ community, their respective media organisations, and the government.

A Pakistani man monitors data during a trading session in the halls of the Karachi Stock Exchange, 6 February 2014, Exclusive PAKISTAN-STOCKMARKET/ REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Strengthening data protection and privacy laws in Pakistan

Digital Rights Foundation has prepared a policy brief regarding data protection and privacy in Pakistan.

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HRC 36: Secure digital communications are essential for human rights

A joint statement by the Association of Progressive Communications, IFEX and 64 co-signatories at the UN-HRC 36 warns of the threat to human rights posed by recent attacks on the right to use encryption technology, in Turkey and across the globe.