QUETTA: A discussion about ‘Public attitudes and preferences about internet censorship and regulation in Pakistan’ was held here on Sunday.Organised by the Internet Policy Observatory and the Centre for Global Comm-unication Studies, Pennsyl-vania, the motive of the discussion was to look into the negative impact of internet censorship in Pakistan. Speaking on the occasion, Senator […]
User names and media attachments such as photos and videos will no longer count towards the length of a tweet, Twitter Inc said on Tuesday, but the 140-character limit will stay. Twitter said the change, part of its efforts to simplify its microblogging service, will come into effect in the next few months.”A few simple […]
ISLAMABAD: While parliament considers a controversial cybercrime bill that seeks to regulate the Internet, the Supreme Court has been asked to order the government to introduce suitable laws to censor ‘objectionable material’ online in order to protect children. The plea is part of suggestions submitted to the court by Asif Luqman Qazi, the heir of […]
SPEAKING at the London School of Economics in November, chairman of the Senate Raza Rabbani said that the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill was flawed, and conceded that many legislators in Pakistan have serious concerns about the legislation. He implied that the bill would not pass the Senate’s scrutiny in the form in which it […]
ISLAMABAD: The cybercrime bill that caused uproar among civil society activists when it was passed by the National Assembly, was presented before the upper house on Tuesday. The draft law – titled ‘Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016’ was presented by the state minister for information technology, Anusha Rehman. Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani referred the […]
Digital Rights Foundation and Bolo Bhi held a consultation today on the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015, on the day that it was set to be discussed by the Pakistani Senate, in Islamabad. Legislation that protects citizens from cybercrime and terrorism is needed more than ever, provided that a fair and progressive balance is […]
KARACHI: The man who kidnapped his teenage Facebook friend for ransom finally met his fate on Tuesday as an anti-terrorism court (ATC) awarded him life imprisonment for the crime. The ATC-III judge convicted Taimur Alvi for kidnapping his 13-year-old social media friend, Mustafa Dossal, son of a businessman, from his school in Defence Housing Authority […]
ISLAMABAD – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started action against the fraudulent online shopping stores on consumer complaints. The action has been taken by National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C), a wing of FIA, dedicated to fight cyber crime. According to officials, on public complaints the department initiated the action against the virtual […]
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office will engage the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for protecting itself from hackers following cyber attacks over the past 18 months. The foreign ministry has sought an allocation of Rs80 million in the next fiscal year’s budget for bolstering cyber-security and securing its communications with the country’s missions overseas, an official told the […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp. Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, reveals the Microsoft Security Intelligence (MSI) report Volume 20 for the second half of 2015. The report assesses software vulnerabilities and exploits, […]
ISLAMABAD – United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Monday relived the Navy SEALs operation to kill Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden by live tweeting the action five years after it actually happened in Pakistan’s garrison city of Abbottabad. The live tweeting, however, was slammed on social media as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘distasteful.’ More, Twitter users criticised […]
KARACHI: The government made 471 requests to Facebook for data related to 706 accounts/users in the latter half of last year, marking a two-fold increase in the number of requests made to the social networking site during the first six months of 2015. The details were given in a bi-annual transparency report, “Global Government Requests […]
Well done FIA Accused of uploading obscene content ISLAMABAD: A senior civil judge has sent Asim Khan Sikandar on a 14-day remand for faking a social media account of media anchorperson Nadia Khan and uploading obscene content on it. FIA presented Sikandar before the court after expiry of his four-day remand. After making the fake […]
LAHORE: Even though the National Assembly has passed the Cyber Crime Bill, the Federal Investigation Agency is expecting low about the outcome of the new law without public understanding. “It is very good that the bill has been passed by National Assembly and courts will have now comprehensive laws on cyber crimes,” said an officer […]
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