Quarterly Media Monitoring Report on Digital Rights in Nepal (April – June 2021)
Body & Data has been conducting media monitoring on digital rights issues since January 2021. Between January and June, Body & Data recorded 243 reports related to digital rights issues from monitoring major print and online media in Nepal. A total...
Digital debacles
Author: Shubha Kayastha Recent events reveal just how vulnerable data privacy is in Nepal While the Nepali people struggle to cope with the coronavirus crisis, the Nepal government has been working towards bringing a new set of regulations that may...
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...