Impact of the traceability provision on the privacy of Indian citizens
Impact of the traceability provision on the privacy of Indian citizens This blog post is first in series of “Encryption and human rights” series by…
SFLC.in’s letter to Shri Shashi Tharoor, containing Suggestions for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT meeting with the representatives of MeitY, MHA and the Ministry of Communications (DoT) on “Citizens’ data security and privacy on July 28, 2021
SFLC.in has written a letter to Shri Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT, containing suggestions for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on…
AN ANATOMY OF THE PEGASUS SPYWARE
The story so far In a series of startling revelations by The Wire, Pegasus, the Israeli Spyware was found to have been used to…
Time to #LetTheNetWork
SFLC.in is organising a two day event “Time To Let The Net Work” on July 15-16, 2021. The event aims to take forward the fight…
SFLC.in writes to CERT.In and Government of Tamil Nadu on Public Distribution System Data Breach
SFLC.in writes to CERT.In and Government of Tamil Nadu on Public Distribution System Data Breach Recently, it was reported that the Tamil Nadu’s Public…
India’s IT Rules, Twitter MD, & UP Police: Actions & Options Ahead
The article analyzes the impact of the IT Rules, 2021 upon the case involving Twitter’s MD, the criminal law angle of it and the scope…
RTI Response from MEITY over Twitter’s Manipulated Media Tag
Earlier in May, there were a series of tweets posted by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra that the Congress Party had developed a tool kit to…
TWITTER, THE INTERMEDIARY GUIDELINES RULES AND THE SAFE HARBOUR PROTECTION
Background The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (Hereinafter “IT Rules”) were notified by the Central Government on 25.02.2021. The…
Free Speech Violations related to COVID-19 Pandemic
Censorship/Free Speech violations related to COVID-19 Pandemic The following are the list of instances that point towards cencorship and free speech violations that have taken…
SFLC.in at RightsCon 2021
SFLC.in is hosting various Session at RightsCon, 20211. Our team will be participating in multiple Community sessions as well as social hour to cover a…
SFLC.in writes to UIDAI seeking extension for Draft Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Regulations, 2021
SFLC.in writes to UIDAI seeking extension for Draft Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Regulations, 2021 The Unique Identification Authority of India (hereinafter “the UIDAI”) recently…
SFLC.in writes to the Lakswdweep adminstration to not impose an internet shutdown
There have been multiple reports of Internet speed throttling in the Union Territory of which can be accessed e accessed here and here. The…