Postcards: Refugees battle digital divide to stay documented in South Africa
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims from refugees and asylum seekers that challenges with renewing their permits on the country’s new online system leave them at risk of deportation and harassment…
South Africa’s plan to record all babies’ biometrics raises privacy fears
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Plans to photograph and fingerprint every baby born in South Africa for a digital register could lead to data leaks and identity theft without robust safeguards, rights experts said on Thursday. The Department of Home Affairs’ new draft policy aims to capture detailed biometrics – unique physical traits – of […]
Australian Copts call for Christian asylum seekers not to be deported back to Egypt
Australian Copts are appealing for a group of 10 Melbourne-based Christian asylum seekers not to be deported back to Egypt where they fear their lives could be in danger. The 10 include a couple aged in their 70s who say they have no one to look after them in Egypt, a journalist and political activist […]