How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power
The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics X: @privacymatters , @silvermanjacob , @oliviasolon , @oliviasolon , @rinachandran , and ...
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the enforcement of US laws should be seen as an urgent argument for strengthening encryption, not weakening it
Riana Pfefferkorn / Stanford CIS Blog : Tweets: @hipsterelectron , @decryption , and @christophera Tweets: @hipsterelectron : another bit that made my eyes widen: diffie-hellman key exchange was publ...
Sources detail how a 2019 NSO deal to sell Pegasus services to Uganda, followed by an attempt to hack US diplomats in Uganda using Pegasus, led to NSO's decline
For years, the Israeli spyware maker thrived through scandal. Then, US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus
A look at Cardano, a controversial blockchain-based project led by Ethereum cofounder Charles Hoskinson that aims to build a national ID system for Ethiopia
There are countless examples of the dangers posed by national ID schemes, including from Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan, India and elsewhere. Tweets: @hackylawyer , @hijodelcuervo , @ahcastor , and @bronwenm...
A look at those unlucky enough to forget the password to access their bitcoin; Chainalysis says 20% of all bitcoin, or ~$140B, appears to be lost or stranded
Also the Libor transition and Chinese stock bans. Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1462: the bitcoin millionaires with no money, the “clean” CES, the trouble with scotch eggs, Uganda bans s...
Facebook says it has shut down a slew of accounts run by Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections
France 24 : Tweets: @sfrantzman , @jilliancyork , @markc_anderson , @anthonyloveace , and @jude_mugabi Tweets: Seth Frantzman / @sfrantzman : Museveni's online account is still active but many govern...
As Twitter reinstates accounts of two Ugandan activists, environmental groups worry that Twitter's moderation system is being exploited to silence activists
Justine Calma / The Verge : Tweets: @anakpawispl , @tonyocruz , and @ecowarriorss Tweets: Anakpawis Party-list / @anakpawispl : One of those killed this year was Randy Echanis, a longtime advocate fo...
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents
Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation