An Internet cafe owner, left, stands nearby as a customer, right, uses a computer at an internet cafe in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 19, 2021.
A new legislation criminalizing some internet activity was signed into law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Thursday (Oct 13).
The law increases restrictions in a controversial 2011 law on the misuse of a computer.
The legislation proposes jail terms of up to 10 years in some cases, including for offenses related to the transmission of information about a person without their consent as well as the sharing or intercepting of information without authorization.