CHAPTER One Foundation and Bloggers of Zambia have submitted to the Lusaka High Court that ZICTA’s directive to mobile network operators for live facial photographs violates the right to privacy. They further argue that the threat of disconnection for failure to comply with the said directive also threatens the right to freedom of expression. This is a matter in which Chapter One Foundation and Bloggers of Zambia dragged ZICTA to the Lusaka High Court, challenging its directive to mobile network operators to collect and process live facial photographs of consumers as a prerequisite to the registration of mobile network services. In its answer, ZICTA submitted that the directive in issue was meant to enhance the protection of consumers from fraudulent...

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