Reporting Elections, Safety and Security of Journalists

the criminalisation of online activities. For example,
the government has used the country’s new cybercrime
laws to target and prosecute individuals who criticise the
government online.
There are usually three technology-related risks you might
think about:
1. Information or Data Loss.
a. When your hard drive dies, your computer is affected
by a porwer surge, your phone gets
b. smashed, or you lose your camera’s data card, or
even water or fire damage
c.
When affected by malware (malicious software).
Some viruses can destroy data on your computer or
mobile device
d. When you forget your password
2. Disclosure. Someone (or people) learns something
that you would prefer to keep private.
a.
b.

When your computer mobile device, flash disk, or
SIM card is lost
When someone gets hold of your password to your
computer service like email, cloud storage (like drop
box, google drive)

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