By Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror, Nov 8, 2023COLOMBO:- Sri Lanka has been identified as a soft target for cybercriminals, and according to the 21st edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report. Cryptocurrency mining malware, where cybercriminals seek illicit profits by using victim’s computers to mine cryptocurrency coins such as Bitcoins have increased in the country, according to the Supreme Court determination on Online Safety Bill. According to the determination, concerns are growing over foreign involvement…
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report in Daily Mirror, Oct 23, 2023The Bar Association, media institutions, advocacy groups, and more than 40 other petitioners challenged the Online Safety Bill in a two-day hearing before the Supreme Court judges Priyantha Jayawardhene, Achala Wengappuli, and Shiran Gunarathne last week. The petitioners warned that the Bill provides very little online safety but is drafted to stop people from expressing ideas and views on the internet and social media. They showed how the Bill…
report in The Island, Oct 15, 2023The UN Human Rights Office has raised serious concerns over two bills under consideration in the Sri Lankan Parliament – the revised Anti-Terrorism Bill and the Online Safety Bill. Issuing a statement, the UN Human Rights Office said the bills give the authorities a range of expansive powers and can also impose restrictions on human rights, not in line with international human rights law. The Anti-Terrorism Bill is intended…
Report in The Island, Oct 5, 2023The General Secretary of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara, SJB’s Rehan Jayawickrema, and Nidahas Janatha Sabhawa (SLPP rebel group) representative Prof. G.L. Peiris, MP, filed a joint petition yesterday (04) against the Online Safety Bill. They named the Attorney General as respondent. The petitioners HAVE pointed out that the Bill published in the government Gazette on 18 September and presented to Parliament on Tuesday (03),…
By Lahiru Doloswala in Daily Morning, Oct 1, 2023The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), an industry association representing prominent Internet and technology companies, has voiced its apprehensions regarding the Government of Sri Lanka’s (GoSL) recent move to gazette the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Jeff Paine, the Managing Director of AIC, expressed concern over the lack of stakeholder consultation in the formulation of this legislation, which raises critical questions about the impact it may have on freedom…
report in ECONOMYNEXT, Sept 30, 2023 at 9:23 pm– The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) in a statement on the Online Safety Bill, said that the existing legal regime is adequate to deal with instances of harmful speech, making it unjustifiable to enact such “stringent laws”. The Council called upon the government to withdraw the bill immediately. The body expressed “deep concern” over the proposed bill, detailing its potential to curtail freedom of…
report in Daily FT,, 23 September 2023The Lawyers’ Collective, a civil society group consisting of legal practitioners in Sri Lanka issued a statement yesterday condemning the recently proposed Anti-Terrorism and Online Safety Bills which were published through gazette announcements this year. The collective said the Government has failed to respond to the serious and fundamental concerns raised about the Anti-Terrorist Bill and adopt any transparent and accountable process through which the bills were explained, justified…
report in The News, Sept 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: The data of 2.2 million Pakistani citizens has been compromised and put up for sale online after some hackers gained access to a private company-made database used by hundreds of restaurants, the Geo News reported on Wednesday. The hackers have reportedly displayed the data of some citizens as samples in the advertisement for the online sale. “We have hacked the databases of over 250 restaurants,” the hackers claimed…
report in adaderana.lk, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:50 pmSri Lanka Police have arrested 28 Chinese nationals who were involved in online financial fraud. Among the suspects were five Chinese women. The police found five laptops, and several smartphones on the suspects at the time of the arrest. After being informed by the INTERPOL about the group of scammers, local law enforcement authorities swung into action and apprehended the suspects who were staying at a tourist…