“We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.”

“The only way to stop big data from becoming big brother is introduce privacy laws that protect the basic human rights online.”

“It is critical that both North and South work collectively for facing the online challenges in defeating the criminals but we also need to ensure that the internet remains a platform for freedom of expression and uncensored information otherwise, it will have a negative impact on social economic development.”

“We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.”

“People with fewer economic resources have very limited opportunity for joining the global internet economy.”

“No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.”

“The very success of the internet itself is due to its openness, equality of opportunity and innovation. Platforms like Facebook itself would not have been created if Mr. Mark Zuckerberg was accessing the internet via free basics.”

“Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes.”

“The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by passing series of draconian laws and it seems we are exactly imitating the same with the freedom of the internet by passing Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill.”

“We need to move from the existing culture of compliance in cybersecurity to developing a culture of excellence in mitigating Cyber threats.”

“In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue.”