Category: Right to Communicate

State Security: hands off the internet! No to spooks regulating social media

State Security: hands off the internet! No to spooks regulating social media

“Any person caught in possession of, generating, sharing or passing on abusive, threatening, subversive or offensive telecommunication messages… that may be deemed to cause despondency, incite violence, threaten citizens and cause unrest, will be...

Statement: R2K demands answers after UJ private security spy scandal!

Statement: R2K demands answers after UJ private security spy scandal!

R2K has demanded that the University of Johannesburg comes clean about the contracts and services it has with private security firms. This comes after eNCA Checkpoint’s explosive report on the use of undercover private...

Right2Know condemns ‘securocratic clampdown’ at Parliament

Right2Know condemns ‘securocratic clampdown’ at Parliament

This article below was published by TimesLive: TMG Digital | 2017-02-08 13:17:04.0 The public deserves to be given reasons for the unprecedented security clampdown being planned for the parliamentary precinct during the State of...

R2K supplementary submission to SABC inquiry – surveillance and state security abuses

R2K supplementary submission to SABC inquiry – surveillance and state security abuses

Supplementary Submission to SABC inquiry: Concerns of Communications Surveillance and State Security Abuses at the Public Broadcaster 16 January 2017 Download PDF submission here   Following Mr Micah Reddy’s appearance before the Committee on...

Research: New Terrains of Privacy in South Africa

Research: New Terrains of Privacy in South Africa

Privacy issues in South Africa have a particular historical significance, given the apartheid state’s systemic violation of the privacy of the black majority and political dissidents in general. A significant part of the struggle...