Repeal laws that inhibit freedom of expression on and offline, including Sections 24 and 25 of the Computer Misuse Act on cyber harassment and offensive speech. Repeal Section 179 of the Penal Code on criminal defamation, and Section 31 of the Uganda Communications Act on minimum broadcasting standards The Computer Misuse Act is often used to prosecute critical voices. In November 2017, New Vision Editor, Felix Osike, was charged with offensive communication for writing about the Police Chief.12 In 2019, Dr. Stella Nyanzi, was convicted of cyber harassment under Section 24 of the Act and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the president in a social media post. She was however aquitted of offensive communications as provided for under Section 25 of the same Act. In June 2019, the editor of Drone Media was also charged under Sections 24 and 25 of the Act.13, along with Pidson Kareire, who was charged with criminal defamation.. In April 2019, several media houses and journalists were reprimanded by UCC for violating minimum broadcasting standards.14 Fully respect, protect and promote the right to privacy of persons l through effective implementation of laws. Ratify the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data protection so as to improve data protection and privacy of the individual nationally and across borders. The Ugandan government in 2019 used Huawei technologies to spy on the opposition politicians on various digital platforms. 15 Reports indicate that the WhatApp account of Robert Kyagulanyi was hacked by the government with the help of Huawei so as to monitor him and his supporters.16 Huawei facial recognition technology 17 was purportedly used to crack down on government critics leading to the arrest of over 836 suspects during protests. 18 In 2018, security operatives from Internal Security Organisation (ISO) stormed the data centre of the mobile telecom network MTN, which is the largest telecom operator in the country, without a search warrant and accessed confidential data, including call data records of individuals.19