Privacy Mauritius

ICTA’s public consultation to ammend laws around social media

The Information & Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) has published a document for public consultations regarding, I quote, "Consultation Paper on proposed amendments to the ICT Act for regulating the use and addressing the abuse and misuse of Social Media in Mauritius".

15 Apr 2021, Yashvin, pages of my life

You Can Use Facebook To Track Your Friends' Sleep

A software developer in Denmark has created a way to track the sleep patterns of his Facebook friends using only the activity data available on the social network. The tool, developed by Søren Louv-Jansen, is based on the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on users of its site and Messenger app.

29 Feb 2016, business.mega.mu

Reasons why the new National ID card now scares me!

After watching the YouTube video, I was totally speechless. I never saw the new ID card in this way. I knew that there was going to have a whole load of data collected but Lalit Mauritius clearly goes beyond the official published benefits of having this detailed database of the population.

01 Oct 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life