Social media use soon to be regulated in Zimbabwe

By James Barnley Posted in Cyber Security social media

Posted on April 11, 2016October 7, 2020

Social media use will soon be regulated in Zimbabwe, with the State already drawing up legal and policy instruments to govern information communication technologies. Local web developers are also in the process of stitching together products similar to social networking sites such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube, Skype and Twitter so as to enable greater supervision. …

Zimbabwe to snoop on citizens’ mobile communications

By James Barnley Posted in Cyber Security Governance

Posted on October 1, 2013November 2, 2020

Zimbabwe’s government has enacted a controversial law that could enable it to spy on any citizen’s cellphone call records as well as text messages. The government gazetted ‘Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013 on Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations, 2013’ on Friday as the country’s new communications minister Webster Shamu – a loyalist of President …