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Nov 12 5 tweets 2 min read
🗳️ With #Romania's parliamentary and presidential elections approaching, it's crucial to push for better protections for journalists & activists.

The rise of #SLAPP suits poses a real threat to civic space in the country. 🧵 Less time in court, more time to report.  Protect civic space. Visit ifex.org ⚖️ Recent cases illustrate this danger: Investigative outlet Context.ro was hit with a €3.4M lawsuit by a businessman after reporting on a questionable state contract. Such intimidation aims to silence critical voices.
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May 29, 2019 21 tweets 37 min read
Thread: A new report from @PrivacyInt raises serious privacy concerns about the app @TrueCaller, which presents concrete risks for people in vulnerable situations, including journalists and human rights defenders: ow.ly/d44W50urXJD #Privacy #SafetyofJournalists .@TrueCaller is especially popular in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. It enables its users to filter unwanted calls by identifying the number calling them from its database. Users can tag their contacts, adding them to TrueCaller’s database, under the name entered by the user.