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Click to expand Image Traffic flows under the surveillance closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) system along Bakuli Street in Kampala, Uganda, August 14, 2019. 2019 REUTERS/Akrena (Nairobi) -Uganda's new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should scrap the system. On November 1, 2023, the government initiated the "Intelligent Transport Monitoring System," allegedly to address national security issues. The authorities say it will build on the country's existing traffic surveillance system with a network of surveillance cameras and mandatory cellular-network-connected tracking devices on all vehicles in the country. "Uganda's new transport surveillance system amounts to unchecked mass surveillance of all vehicles at all times, un
Nairobi Uganda's new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy