Social Media Management Directive 2021 and Its Problems
Recently, the Information and Communication Department came up with "Social Media Management Directives" to manage and limit social media on the grounds of morality. This social media directive plays a huge role in shaping how our online space and behavior works and...
Privacy Consultation Findings: What Online and Data Privacy Means to Communities
Privacy could mean different things to people based on their realities and identities. We held consultations with young women, queer folks, trans and intersex people and women with disability to understand, reflect, and share privacy concerns, online and...
Privacy in the Pandemic
The corona pandemic isn’t a purely medical issue, it entangles all aspects of human lives, including our privacy, protection and dignity.
Digital privacy: an overlooked side of civil liberties in Nepal
A series of policies adopted by the Government of Nepal in the last few years reveal a pattern of data collection and surveillance that puts an individual’s right to privacy at risk. As explained in a previous article on biometric identification in Nepal, the...
Biometrics have arrived. Here’s what could go wrong with them
In Laal Purja, the popular television series of the 1990s, Hari Bansha Acharya plays Ghanshyam, a simpleton and the sole heir to property coveted by outside investors. Dhurbe, played by Madan Krishna Shrestha, is a local agent trying to usurp Ghanshyam’s land. As the...