Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:25:41 +0000 PLANS by Government to propose three bills to Parliament to curtail social media abuse and protect innocent citizens is a step in the right direction. The proposal could not have come at a better time than now when social media abuse had become so rampant that even the highest office in the land – State House – has not been spared from evil. Government, according to Minister of Transport and Communication Brian Mushimba, has no intention of banning social media but only wants to protect innocent citizens from cybercrimes through the bills. The three, the Cyber Security and Cyber-crimes Bill, the Data Protection and the E-Commence Bill, will help control criminal activities such as fraud, defamation and duplicating of people’s Facebook profile pages, bullying and fake news. In the recent past, so many innocent citizens, including government ministers, have fallen victim to cyber criminals who have been committing these […]
