Freedom House, an international freedom advocacy group and research organization has come up with a report named “Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech”. This Washington-based company listed down the details of cyber freedom in different countries throughout the world and ranked Pakistan Seventh among the “abusers of internet freedom”.
From the last few years, Pakistan was considered among 10 countries where internet freedom has been on the decline. This time Pakistan’s position has once again raised concerns and has started a debate regarding the proposed rules by the country that are damaging the cyber security in the state and taking away the right of communication from the people on the internet.
Internet freedom on a decline in Pakistan: report
The report weighed different indicators of internet freedom and it also enlisted the reasons for the given ranking of each country. It gave examples of different countries where data sovereignty is used as an excuse for surveillance. It gave examples of different countries and highlighted Pakistan where the government has introduced new regulations for internet users and service providers.
“In some cases, such data localisation requirements have been introduced in the context of content regulation,” said the report. “Pakistan’s proposed Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules, the latest version of which was published in November 2020, outline...
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