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Nighat Dad

Activist b. 1981

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Nighat Dad is a Pakistani lawyer and digital-rights activist who founded the Digital Rights Foundation in 2012. Her work focuses on online freedom of expression, privacy, digital security, and combating cyber-harassment affecting women. She has also advocated for stronger legal protections and represented prominent women’s-rights cases in Pakistan.

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Accessibility Censorship Chaos Digital Rights Freedom Information Internet Knowledge National Security

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“Shutting down mobile phone services is not a solution to national security concerns. If you shut down access to information you create more chaos.”

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Censorship Chaos Digital Rights Information Internet National Security

“Safe access to the internet is access to knowledge, and knowledge is freedom.”

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Accessibility Digital Rights Freedom Internet Knowledge