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VPN crackdown: Is your data truly safe?

Understanding Pakistan's crackdown on unregistered VPNs, their labeling as un-Islamic, and a closer look at what VPNs actually are.

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Amber Shamsi

Pakistan Editor

Amber Rahim Shamsi is an award-winning multimedia journalist, political commentator, and free speech advocate with extensive experience in media development. She previously served as Director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at IBA, where she spearheaded the launch of iVerify Pakistan, a UNDP-supported fact-checking platform. A former BBC World Service bilingual reporter, she has hosted three major current affairs shows on Pakistani news channels. She is also an IVLP and ICFJ Digital Fellow, a media trainer, and an advocate for press freedom and gender representation in journalism.

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Pakistan Software Houses Association says virtual private network (VPN) registration threatens a potentially $15 billion IT business. Clients could leave due to data protection concerns and add to operational costs for IT companies and freelancers.

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says “the right to connectivity is a fundamental right—not a privilege. Instead of protecting this right in a country of millions of young people who depend increasingly on access to the internet as a means of exercising their civil, political, economic and social rights.”

The real question is - how safe is your data and internet browsing history and from whom?

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