R&D Techlead and Dev Manager / e-Commerce / Java- & JEE specialist / gadgeteer / consumer-, privacy- & security activist
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...
Let’s start off with the most obvious: Local IT websites such as MyBroadband do not cover one of South Africa’s largest ISP breaches with objectivity and without bias. What will you do if your core business is to report on...
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...
South Africa’s CellC CEO Jose Dos Santos “proudly” announced that from today, 1st July 2015, CellC in co-operation with Facebook will offer zero-rated internet access to Facebook and a handpicked number of South African websites. In simple terms, you download a Facebook app...
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