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Who can unmask a Facebook pseudonym? Police powers at home
Recent reports indicate that two persons were taken in for questioning by Botswana police over their comments on posts published by a pseudonymous Facebook account. Versions differ on whether this amounted to an arrest, and no report identifies an offence, so this column comments no further on those individuals. But the episode raises a question every citizen should understand: when an anonymous account causes harm, how can the police find out who is behind it? This is the first of four articles in the series: Ba ba buelang dikgageng, magakabe a a ba utlwa.
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The post Who can unmask a Facebook pseudonym? Police powers at home first appeared on Sunday Standard and is written by Isabella Mathiba