R&D Techlead and Dev Manager / e-Commerce / Java- & JEE specialist / gadgeteer / consumer-, privacy- & security activist
Consumer activism covering consumer laws in South Africa such as Consumer Protection Act (CPA), National Credit Regulator and regulatory bodies.
My appeal against Afrihost spam dating back to 2017 is still ongoing. I was never satisfied with the weak ruling, the bias shown by ISPA and the numerous delays until ISPA fined a company valued at that time close to...
The recent announcement of Sagarmatha establishing a MSP (Multi Sided Platform) as a “first” in South Africa has drawn a large amount of criticism from people in the know. Novices (such as the Black Consumer Council) slated MSP as a...
Update 26/12/2017: I have posted a detailed guide on how to transfer ETH/BTC from Coinbase into Binance. Although I live in South Africa, I avoid the local exchanges and trading platforms (such as Luno) as you will not just exposed...
It is great to see that the DPCI (Department of Priority Crimes Investigation) and the South African CCU (Commercial Crimes Unit) have started investigating the leak of over 60m South African identities as reported by Troy Hunt and published by a...
You might remember when MyBroadband.co.za censored my Afrihost support query after I received a barrage of spam. My ISPA complaint about Afrihost’s unsolicited email- and SMS communications to thousands of Afrihost users who had opted out from receiving marketing communication...
A few weeks after I reported Afrihost and Mybroadband to ISPA for violating ISPA’s code of conduct, I noticed the following on my Twitter timeline: Initially I thought that the unavailable Tweets are a result of Afrihost deleting them. But it...
During my ongoing ISPA complaint against MyBroadband.co.za, I required additional information from MyBroadband.co.za, which I could not retrieve since my access was blocked without notice or warning. Since I wanted to make my ISPA complaint as detailed as possible, and...
To get the full back-story leading up to this event, you need to read Mybroadband.co.za censors consumer activism about Afrihost SMS- & email-spam first. The short story is: As an Afrihost customer I responded to Afrihost’s support forum to raise my issues...
Update 8th June 2017: MyBroadBand has banned me because I reported them to ISPA and issued a PAIA request. It all started off with receiving unsolicited SMS from Afrihost towards the end of May 2017 when Afrihost wanted to do a...
Since my recent banning on MyBroadband where the main reason for the ban seems to have originated from providing consumer advice as an Afrihost customer in an Afrihost support thread, I think it is valuable for anyone affected by unsolicited messages...
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