KARACHI: A day after a parliamentary panel cleared the controversial cybercrime bill, there was increasing disquiet among professionals from different backgrounds with virtually all of them bashing the standing committee on information technology. The committee, on Thursday, cleared the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 for a second time after lightly amending some clauses, pushing […]
ISLAMABAD: The draft cybercrime bill was forcefully cleared by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Thursday and sent to the National Assembly for final approval without showing the members the copy of the bill. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 had become controversial as critics believed it curtailed civil liberties. In […]
ISLAMABAD: A Senate standing committee on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Information Technology to unblock YouTube at the earliest. “Both the Internet users and service providers are at the losing ends. The users have been deprived of an important educational platform and Google is losing money,” said chairman Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology Shahi […]
Imagine a few months from now, a Facebook status ‘glorifying’ a leading politician – who happens to be accused in pending cases under the Anti-Terrorism Act – is published by a young political activist. Five of his friends share this status to their accounts as well. At the same time, a local news website publishes […]
The website “Hum TV” a leading entertainment television channel of Pakistan was hacked and defaced on 6th September. The group calling itself ‘Pakistan Cyber Attackers’ after hacking website wrote on it that vulgarity and nudity in the dramas are increasing day after day. They said these days, each and every drama has vulgar scenes in […]
LAHORE: Last week, in a video that went viral on social media, analyst Faisal Qureshi employed misogynist references to assail Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan for his comments on Pakistan banning the screening of his flick Phantom. A few days later, a motivational speaker used a derogatory word for a Pakistani actress who had defended […]
ISLAMABAD: Universities and research institutes across the country as well as million of students remain deprived of essential educational contents available on YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing website, as the government is unwilling to spend Rs3 billion required to install filters for blocking the blasphemous and offensive contents on the website, The News has learnt. […]
ISLAMABAD: Rights campaigners and experts have proposed various amendments to the proposed prevention of electronic crimes bill, which they said was very vague. The bill is pending before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecom. Experts and officials at a conference recently discussed recommendations to the bill, which, according to Digital Rights […]
ISLAMABAD: Rights campaigners and experts have proposed various amendments to the proposed prevention of electronic crimes bill, which they said was very vague. The bill is pending before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecom. Experts and officials at a conference recently discussed recommendations to the bill, which, according to Digital Rights […]
ISLAMABAD: The network of civil society, rights bodies and service providers associations petitioned to the upper house of parliament. The protest was against the government’s decision to not include them in the process of consultation, as per advertisement. Despite formation of a sub-committee to finalize the draft unanimously, the rights activists, civil society network and […]
LAHORE: “Pakistan is brimming with a rich historical and cultural heritage, with stories and artifacts that we are keen to preserve for future generations,” Google Asia Pacific Public Policy and Government Affairs Director Ann Lavin said on Thursday at a ceremony to unveil six online exhibits from Pakistan that have been added to the Google […]
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Parliament on Wednesday finalised amendments in the draft cyber crimes bill, giving some concessions to the IT industry and civil society while maintaining most of the original clauses of the previously formulated legislation. A marathon meeting of the committee, chaired by Major (R) Tahir Iqbal continued for six hours to […]
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Parliament on Wednesday finalised amendments in the draft cyber crimes bill, giving some concessions to the IT industry and civil society while maintaining most of the original clauses of the previously formulated legislation. A marathon meeting of the committee, chaired by Major (R) Tahir Iqbal continued for six hours to […]
ISLAMABAD – The officials of ministries of Interior, Law and Justice, and security agencies have been summoned to reconsider the clause of the Cyber Crime Bill 2015. Secretaries Information Technology, Interior, Law and Justice, Director General Intelligence Bureau, in-charge National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes, National Coordinator NACTA would attend the meeting called by the […]
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