2024-02-08
In Pakistan, the army has suspended mobile phone services nationwide - It is to blatantly rig the election due to the fear that Imran Khan's party might win. Mobile phone service is a security provider not a security concern.
Nikkei Asia
Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation
Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy — Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.
2022-10-03
No internet, no phone in Tigray for the last 2 years - With almost half of Tigray's six million people in severe need of food, the shutdown and road blockades by Ethiopia have hampered humanitarian aid deliveries. https://www.reuters.com/...
Context
The UN World Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
2022-10-02
No internet, no phone in Tigray for the last 2 years - With almost half of Tigray's six million people in severe need of food, the shutdown and road blockades by Ethiopia have hampered humanitarian aid deliveries. https://www.reuters.com/...
Context
The UN Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray region is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
As fighting rages on in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, one of the world's longest telecommunications shutdowns is hampering aid deliveries …
2022-08-24
According to the whistleblower, three countries had forced Twitter to hire local full-time employees to use them as leverage - These 3 countries are India, Nigeria, & Russia. What a great company the world's so-called largest democracy has!
Washington Post
A profile of Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow
From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’
According to the whistleblower, three countries had forced Twitter to hire local full-time employees to use them as leverage - These 3 countries are India, Nigeria, & Russia. What a great company the world's so-called largest democracy has!
Reuters
Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint alleges India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents, who could have accessed sensitive user data due to weak security
😱 El antiguo jefe de seguridad de Twitter tira de la manta. Ians / Business Standard : Twitter trashes ex-worker's claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’ Lily Hay Newman /...
2021-07-02
Why do all dictators think alike? https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Putin signs a law forcing foreign tech companies with a daily audience in Russia of over 500,000 people to open offices in the country by 2022
2020-10-28
Shivnath Thukral, who replaced Ankhi Das in Facebook, had also worked for the BJP during Modi's 2014 election campaign. https://time.com/...
TechCrunch
Ankhi Das, Facebook's public policy director for India, South, and Central Asia, leaves after allegations of content moderation interference for India's BJP
2020-08-29
A TIME investigation reveals Facebook knew about hate speech by a BJP politician but left it online for a year https://time.com/...
TIME
Sources: Facebook commissioned an independent report on its impact on human rights in India, where critics say its policy officials are too close to Modi's BJP
Billy Perrigo / TIME :