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Month: November 2021

State Surveillance Violates Citizens Rights: lessons from six countries

State Surveillance Violates Citizens Rights: lessons from six countries

On paper, citizen’s privacy rights are well protected throughout Africa. They are explicitly written into constitutions, international human rights conventions and domestic law. But, in the first comparative review of privacy protections across Africa we found that governments ignore the law to to carry out illegal digital surveillance of their citizens. What’s more, they are doing so with impunity…