The Competition Commission Data Services Market Inquiry
The 2019 Competition Commission Data Services Market Inquiry exposed the profiteering of South Africa's mobile operators.
R2K’s activist guide to RICA & state surveillance in SA
The Right2Know Campaign has published STOP THE SURVEILLANCE, an activist guide to communications surveillance in South Africa. Nearly everyone in South Africa knows about a law called “RICA” (the Regulation of…
High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency
R2K Statement welcoming the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency The Right2Know Campaign calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to, forthwith, implement all of the recommendations of the High-Level…
RICA declared Unconstitutional & Invalid
On 16 September 2019 the High Court found RCA unconstitutional. On 4 February 2021 the Constitutional Court upheld the ruling. R2K, LRC PI Statement from 2019 The Right2Know Campaign, Privacy…
The Racial Digital Divide Persists
From Dana Floberg on Free Press, 18 December 2018. Two years ago Free Press released a landmark report, Digital Denied, which showed that disparities in broadband adoption — commonly known as the digital…
The Age of Surveillance-Capitalism -The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Read Shoshana's Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance-Capitalism -The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Rad
R2K’s Alternatives to Privatised Telecommunication
In South Africa, as in much of the rest of the world, telecommunication services are concentrated in a handful of monopolistic private companies that reap massive profits at the expense…
R2K Report on Surveillance of Journalists in South Africa
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Gender of household head and the digital divide in South Africa’s settlements
This September 2017 study by Pashapa, Tapfuma and Rivett, Ulrike finds that technology plays a significant role in bridging gender gap in labour market outcomes. The paper investigates gender differential…
R2K’s New Terrains of Privacy in South Africa
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