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Macedonia: Society On Tap

Macedonia: Society On Tap

“This is my personal opinion,” concedes Branko, a taxi driver in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia's capital. “It was done by America to stop Putin building his gas pipe line through Macedonia.” “This is just politics,” he advises, skeptically. It's a common reaction to the wiretapping scandal in
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Large telco secretly opens bank accounts using Aadhaar-linked eKYC

In December 2017, it was revealed that the large telco Bharti Airtel made use of Aadhaar-linked eKYC (electronic Know Your Customer) to open bank accounts for their customers without their knowledge or consent. eKYC is a way of using data in the UIDAI database as part of the verification process
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Macedonia: Time to Act on Government Surveillance

Privacy International and Metamorphosis have today written to authorities in Macedonia to provide information and call for assurances regarding government surveillance in Macedonia. For over two years, Macedonia has endured a prolonged and severe political crisis - including wide scale protests and
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