The govt of Pakistan is pulling another privacy violation attempt by ordering telecom companies in the country to put a mass surveillance system, ironically called "Lawful Intercept Management System" or LIMS, to surveil on everything that transmits through their network. 1/ Court documents reveal that PTA has mandated telcos to finance, import and install this system that would allow authorities, including agencies that were not named, to access data of any person in the country using local networks, through basically a single button. 2/

🧵 Attending a protest? These tips are useful to keep yourself and others around you safe: 1) if you can afford it, take a burner phone w you; leave main phone at home.

This will ensure your info is safe on the main phone, & if anyone tries to geotrack, your main phone isn't present there.

This also protects your phone from being confiscated in case arrests happen.

🚨 The Pakistan govt just approved the data protection law that you must pay attention to.

I read it so you don't have to (even though you should).

Here's a long thread on the law and just some of the things that are very worrying. - Starting w the process of passing the law: No one has seen the officially passed law. We got a copy titled "Final Draft" with no date through sources in media.

Laws that are passed behind closed doors are always intended to stifle civil liberties & never in favour of citizens.