CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 22) – Anonymous

  • Internet Governance

Purba Sarkar

13 July 2015

CIS interviews a Tibetan security researcher and information activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series. He prefers to remain anonymous.

“Idont know technology but I am aware of the information people share with me.So yes, they can track you down through your mobile phone. The last time I wasin Nepal, I met a westerner. We went to this restaurant and she asked me totake the battery out of the phone. That was the first time I had heard of thisand so when I asked why she said that it is possible that people had followedus and it has happened to other Tibetans in Nepal…”

Centre for Internet and Society presents its twenty second installment of the CIS Cybersecurity Series.

The CIS Cybersecurity Series seeks to address hotlydebated aspects of cybersecurity and hopes to encourage wider public discoursearound the topic.

This work was carried out as part of the CyberStewards Network with aid of a grant from the International Development ResearchCentre, Ottawa, Canada.

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