Puzzling over privacy

When I went for a walk on the beach with my cousin a couple of Sundays ago, I did not expect to find myself in a Facebook video shot and shared by someone with more than 2,500 friends. We were at Clifton Beach, the most publicly accessible and over-developed of Karachi’s shores. Plastic wrappers, soda [...]

Up next: a ban on your brain

“Hey everyone in Pakistan, are you really not on Facebook anymore?” I typed into my status update box yesterday. Silence. Ten minutes later, still nothing. I had a moment of blind panic when I realized they were really not there. There are some friends in Pakistan I count on seeing online every day, even if [...]