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hello i'm kristie want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along there is a warning today that governments around the world are increasingly watching what proposed doing on social media in its annual report on internet freedom the u.s. based engine of freedom house ses governments all spending millions by sophisticated technology to monitor our behavior online now in africa be culprit saw and go into uganda kenya and nigeria now in addition to surveillance there is also the restriction of online activity now here's a snapshot of internet freedom on the continent according to freedom house of the 11 sub-saharan african countries that were surveyed ethiopia and sudan ranked the worst with $100.00 points being the perfect school now some bob way was also singled out in the report it's a country that has cost rules making it legal to monitor people's online activity where government critics have been charged and

a fake news and hate speech laws and where the internet has been shut down but people there say a major threat to internet freedom is that data costs are so high the price of data is has gone for out of reach for the average suburban it's now. you know we've good bread and bust but the issues. buying now seems just like you didn't you can do without it prices rise daily but people salaries don't go up in tandem so there's a lot of restriction in terms of the internet access that people have with one of the countries where data is exposed and the way that the government always demonizes the need to better comes out of social media in terms of deters people from expressing themselves online there's no freedom because you find that once you see something on the internet you are subject to be attacked by you know the state and i think the people that are actually. targeted for that they continue to do

about the. donate if so things like this put a stop in general how can it be my guest today is isabel lindsey from afraid of how she specializes in africa welcome to date of the africa isabel so we're talking about the surveillance on social media in the african conscious just give us an overview who exactly is being monitored on social media i've great to be here thank you so much so our new freedom on that report has found evidence of social media surveillance problem programs in kenya africa and nigeria uganda and angola and to give a sense of the kind of programs that we're talking about nigeria for example in their $20000.00 budget included an allocation for a social media mining suite of 2000000000 myra. right and so

i'm guessing that this is this is it's a far reaching surveillance right it's not targeted at specific individuals but but generally the average joe can can be ever show expect that they're they're being surveyed on line. that's exactly right and one of our main concerns is that governments aren't just targeting individual people but because they're using ai and automation it means that they can reach everybody who's on lines and social media let's talk about the little as yet do we have any little is regulating such practices. there are in some places and one of our concerns is that often the rights that we expect to be protected offline and are protected offline and legal measures for production for free of expression for example are not necessarily apply the same lie online so we're looking to see when countries are implementing new laws to enshrine these rights for users online as well we actually

kind of saw this appointing example in nigeria this past year when the digital rights and freedoms was not signed by the president after it had been passed to the government so we'll be watching to see how those types of laws progress in the future is a fallacy of talk so i just want to take you back to the point you made about that the kind of investments and things like data mining that you pointed out on the part of stuff it's like nigeria and kenya are you able to give us an explanation i'm hoping it's not to take nickel as to how exactly this is done how do they want to sell what we do on social media when they invest in that kind of technology. i think there are there are ways that can that this can take place but as i mentioned the ai and automation are key to how this happens in many cases and the opportunity is really there because of the lack of legal protections that i mentioned but also because many tech platforms are not adequately protecting their users rights and so it's back combination of things that gives the opportunity for governments to use

this advanced technology to monitor citizens so surveillance is obviously one aspect of officer pull it but i guess it's broadly into the conversation about media freedoms internet freedoms for the sorry the continent we've showed. an overview in terms of you know the rankings of sub-saharan africa countries like sudan in ethiopia right at the bottom but just give us i mean you look at africa specifically give us your sense of just how things are in terms of internet freedom on the continent is there a gradual decline will things getting better all things just getting worse this year we did see more countries in africa with a decline and an improvement but i also want to flag that it's not all necessarily negative having said that it actually was our most volatile region that we studied this year ethiopia have the largest improvement of any country out of all $65.00 of the report covers for a sudan had the largest decline out of all $65.00 so there's

a lot you know in the news in conversation these days about how the internet can be a tool for good it can be a tool for democracy or it can also be used by for tarion to repress their citizens and i think we're able to see both of those and that is about just coming back to you know the surveillance of we've been talking about if somebody is watching this program and they're thinking gosh i don't want my government having access to to what i'm doing online on what i'm posting a social media is there a way to safeguard oneself from that. some ways you can help protect yourself are by looking at the privacy settings on social media that you use and also if you're concerned about your safety using virtual private networks. right that's isabel is a from the fate of house thank you. thank you so much. about dest oil and screeching ty is spinning is the fosters growing much

a sport in south africa it was once shrouded in darkness it again is he and gangsterism today a new generation of privacy is pushing to make this subculture mainstream and they're pulling crowds to race hubs across the country. to the inner earth. screeching tires roaring motors and then to adrenaline this is the dog of south african street speaking. a bit spinning it's like a drug you have to be pretty tough for me to understand it's turning is all about. the drugs and i mean. you know just feel yourself free to their rooms simply see how many death defying stunts you can perform before the engine gives out spinning evolved during the 1980 s. at the height of the appetite regime expensive cars which well considered status

symbols of white supremacy was stolen and used to perform stunts as an act of defiance they were also the perfect getaway cars for guns does i. but the north has changed scenes where a young generation of spinach has moved this point off the streets and into venues events like real and smoke in the south of johannesburg popping up across the country. one star of the scene is dylan bro it is a key he draws excited she is from the crowd as she spins he's caught as close to them as possible and he always wins the competition the look. we're burning now are. the people and families and it gives one of the crowd to see the players. not more than i was in this morning. when he needs to. respond to the

family game the youngsters they want to be with. all those spinning still takes place illegally on the streets literally while the days are no longer on today it's seen as a legitimate sport in south africa and is performed much more safely in proper venues you can even sign up for a spinning course like here at the sweats a drifting academy this is the training ground of the spinola be muggles a female only spinning crew they're determined to prove that these kind of sport isn't just for bad boys. i do tend to take away all that's a stigma that is built into the sport and we're trying to take away better people can be can know that they can also comment experience things out of their comfort zone so this is a very great experience so it doesn't make me feel like a look at me he would say. making. all those spinning has its roots in 50 today drivers needs to dig deep into their own pockets fixing

a busted up cause doesn't come cheap professionals likes gora in soweto is he spends up to 10000 euros a year just to keep their cars running luckily many spinners are also kid mechanics . because right now as we said we don't have any sponsors we don't have backing we don't have anything like for instance marco it's a conversion. of year or so but it doesn't come standard like. we convert to the if you have to go to someone a convert. makes a call you're going to pay probably and your sense of $60000.00. that's quite a lot of money which not a lot of people. scaurus wife isn't exactly pleased with has. it's close to the sport of choice but that doesn't stop him from being a regular at the wilson small event every thursday in

a society that remains segregated in so many ways spinning isn't just entertainment for sport or it's also a sport which knocks down racial boundaries move. everyone loves a just brings everyone together. there's different of those issues those different people they all come together for one purpose to see people and to see a sports. winning although some veterans are worried that confining speeding to designated venues he's posting this for. an emerging young generation of drivers a working hard to improve its reputation so that everybody can let off some steam. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page now south africa is still revelling in the rugby ball cup fever and the victorious the tories claim making their way home from japan today

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