Kathmandu press published a news about the organized the corruption that happened during the procurement of media equipment for the Corona relief. The article questioned the involvement of Asgar Ali, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s IT consultant, Kshitiz Rimal, the son of Oli’s chief advisor Bishnu Rimal, and Swaraj Pokhrel, the son of Defence Minister Ishwar Pokhrel in the procuring medical equipment from China. It was claimed by the
Kathmandu Press that it's web developer Shiran Technologies unauthorizedly accessed the website due to conflict interest in regards to one of the news published on Tuesday theand removed news from the site.
F1 soft and esewa both companies were founded by Asgar Ali which has a significant stake in siran technology.
According to Kathmandu Press ,” They received number of calls from the people and when they disagree to remove the news the web developer deleted the news and restricted the admin panel from them. They called the tech company and threatened them to do legal action and only then the web developer cpanel returned the access of the website.”
Kathmandu Press has issued a press statement saying it has taken the unauthorized access and content removal as a move to control media and an attack on press freedom.
This is a very unique case scenario for a country like Nepal of unethical access or hacking. The limitation of the case doesn't just limits here as the company F1 soft manages the banking sector app of 28 commercial banks. With such enagement and international tie up with Alibaba as well the company has landed itself into a more complex and complicated with issue of
1. Data privacy2. Trust, ethic and morale
3. Hacking
4. Infrastructure vulnerability
5. Cyber security
The case not only deal with abuse of authority but has significantly triggered a discussion about trust and morales. How are the business or clients suppose to trust people who we abuse authority when they need it.
In an age where we are talking about misinformation and disinformation cases like these prove that core values are more important than any rules and regulations. All the people have to be responsible from their side be it the journalist be it the technology people and the politicians.
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