<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p>Yap! It establishes a framework for Human Rights chilling effect, US-designed FISA secret courts. You knows about it from Edward Snowden. Its scary...</p>
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Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>; <br>
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KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; <br>
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[kictanet] AU Cyber-security Convention ignores practical reality <br>
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Convention that would touch on virtually every aspect of electronic culture. Inside the 52-page Convention are lurking provisions for just about everybody to dislike.</p></div><span style="color:rgb(128, 128, 128);font-family:Georgia, 'ITC Century W01 Light';font-size:17px;line-height:25px;">If right now you are asking, “What is the AUCC?” you are not alone. Indeed, a major problem with the AUCC is that so few people, companies, and organisations even know of its existence, yet it is scheduled to be passed by the AU in January 2014. </span><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/-/1959700/2073806/-/oogkb4z/-/index.html" style="font-size:12pt;">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/-/1959700/2073806/-/oogkb4z/-/index.html</a></div> </div></td>
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