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INTERNET PTA blocked as much as 6,149 websites in the last year after Web Evaluation Cell’s recommendation. After scrutiny, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned 6,149 websites out of a total of 46,200 sites that were scanned over the past year. The recommendation to block the websites were given by Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony’s Web Evaluation Cell (WEC). The Blocked Websites The WEC sent complaints about 15,481 domains to PTA after evaluating a total of 46,200 websites. Out of those 15,481 complaints, PTA blocked 6,149 websites after evaluation. ALSO, READ Researchers Design a Filter to Defeat Facial Recognition Software PTA, together with Higher Education Commission (HEC), previously launched an awareness program to filter the inappropriate content at all educational institutions. Additional Attorney General (AAG) Nayyar Rizvi added that a total of 9,846 proxies have been installed at education...

INTERNET The European Union just put their new law to protect personal data of its citizens, called GDPR. Does it affect Pakistan? The European Union recently passed a new legislation, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to protect its citizens’ privacy and to control companies that collect and store their data. The law has already come into effect and changes rules for companies that deal with data of European citizens. Such companies are now legally bound in the 28-member EU and will face severe penalties if they fail to abide. The GDPR was introduced two years ago in April 2016 and companies were given a two-year period to comply. It requires companies to be more open with their users about how their personal data is being used, while also ensuring complete transparency about where the data goes, with whom it gets shared with, and vice versa. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal caused a massive privacy uproar, as the socia...