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How can women protect themselves online?
This article was written in collaboration with Raseef22 and published first on Raseef22.com. Consider your mobile phone’s photo gallery for…
Data Privacy Day: A reminder to start protecting your data and yourself
Happy Data Privacy Day! More than half of the world is now online. Companies are collecting, leveraging, and monetizing our…
Help us map blocked websites in 2019!
In November 2018, the Lebanese Government issued an order to block all access to the online website building platform, Wix,…
A Brief History of Personal Data Collection in Lebanon
In December 2017, the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications, headed by Minister Jamal Jarrah, started taking steps to mandate biometric registration…
#GenderTech Confronts Gender-Based Violence in MENA
Feature image viaOxfam/The Media Booth, November 24, 2017, Beirut, Lebanon: Arab feminists discuss how to counter online violence. Is…
Youth, Internet, and Technology in Lebanon: A Snapshot
Social Media Exchange (SMEX) surveyed 157 youths between the ages of 14 and 22 to develop a snapshot of how…
Why Boycott Lebanon’s Mobile Phone Operators, Alfa and touch?
A self-described independent youth movement is waging what it is referring to as a “polite struggle” (الكفاح_المهذب#) against state corruption…