Some people think such features will make everyday life easier, and safer, but digital rights experts say the potential for surveillance is a threat to basic rights amid a broader crackdown on dissent and free speech during Sisi's 10-year rule. "Planting surveillance cameras across the city gives authorities an unparalleled ability to police public spaces and crack down on citizens who wish to protest or exercise their right to peaceful assembly," said Marwa Fatafta, a policy manager at digital rights group Access Now.
The gleaming tower blocks and high-tech facilities of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi s flagship new capital are a far cry from Cairo s congested streets and crumbling facades. In the New Administra.
Governments of Africa, including Nigeria, have been urged to expand digital rights and inclusion on the continent by formulating favourable laws and policies.
Mobile SIM registration linked to digital ID is causing exclusion of marginalised groups, and concerns about privacy in the absence of sufficient legal safeguards, .