In the wake of increased online transactions due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Working Group on Cyber Laws and Digital Security in Zambia, a consortium of...

The Ministry of Social Communication and the Ministry of Health effected the National Contingency Plan and Communication Strategy aimed at controlling the sp...

Zambian information and technology regulator (ZICTA) stated that its Cyber Matrix Database used to profile the perpetrators and victims of cybercrime indicat...

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies launched a special Ministerial Task Team to monitor and respond to fake news during the lockdown pe...

On 17 April 2020 Namibia amended its COVID-19 Regulations to include criminalisation of the spreading of fake news about COVID-19. In terms of Regulation 15 ...

The lack of regulation in the public sector poses a genuine threat to privacy rights. The significance of appropriate regulation, with reference to governmen...

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads and panic consumes the world, the proliferation of dis/misinformation around it is a cause for alarm too. African nations...

On Tuesday 3 March 2020, EndCoders Walther Dieckmann and Alon Alkalay attended the Cybereason 2020 Conference held at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg. Found...

On Tuesday 3 March 2020, EndCoders Walther Dieckmann and Alon Alkalay attended the Cybereason 2020 Conference held at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg. Found...

The Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act of 2015 aims to provide a unified and comprehensive legal, regulatory and institutional framework for the...

The Cyber Crime, Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill of 2019 was passed by Zimbabwean cabinet in October 2019. The Bill is currently being drafted for pu...

To address the loopholes of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Framework Law 013/2002, a Telecommunications and Information Communications Bill (The “ICT Bil...

Yes. The African Union Cybersecurity Convention and Personal Data Protection (AUCC/ Convention) was adopted at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of t...

There are many definitions for Cybercrime between academia, policymakers and the general public. From a general stand point, the Miriam Webster Dictionary de...

In April 2018 Zambia introduced the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill and approved for review in August 2018. Controversially, the draft Bill provides penal...

Botswana has passed the Cybercrime and Computer Related Crimes Act , an Act to combat cybercrime and Computer related crimes, to repress criminal activities ...