Democracy Speaks! It’s Hamara Internet and we don’t want that to change!
With just about a day left before the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) closes comments on its “Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-the-Top…
Net Neutrality: Bottom-up Perspectives
Half-day Consultation 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 22 April 2015, Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum SFLC.IN in association with ICFOSS, ISOC Trivandrum, IEEE Kerala Section, and Swatantra…
FOSS News – March 2015
Code Audit of OpenSSL http://www.zdnet.com/article/ncc-group-to-audit-openssl-for-security-holes/ https://cryptoservices.github.io/openssl/2015/03/09/openssl-audit.html https://opencryptoaudit.org/ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-initiative On March 9th, 2015 Cryptography Services announced that it will be performing a cryptographic security audit of…
DEITY says 2341 URLs were blocked in 2014; refuses to reveal more
On March 9, 2015, SFLC.in requested the following information from the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) under the Right to Information Act, 2005:…
Bringing Freedom to the Internet in India
In a landmark judgment on Tuesday, the Indian Supreme Court has recognised the immense importance of free expression in the development of India in the…
Victory for team of young lawyers, activists
Tuesday’s verdict is a victory for a loose coalition of young lawyers, Internet activists and researchers who filed separate petitions but helped each other with…
Section 66A scrapped: Supreme Court adds muscle to social media
In a landmark judgment on Tuesday, the Supreme Court quashed Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, which clamped down on freedom of…
India’s Supreme Court strikes down law against offensive online content
India’s Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional an Internet law that provided for the arrest of people sending online messages considered offensive or menacing….
India Once Again Awakens To Freedom: A Watershed Moment
Indian Supreme Court has given India what it deserves — a chance to experience free and open Internet and protection against censorship. The court said…
Section 66A of IT Act: This week our heads are held high
March 25, 2015 – The verdict is rocking, with the times. Beautiful quotes (by) Shakespeare, Mark Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar to explain what incitement…
Section 66A: Why SC didn’t think government would act responsibly on censorship
On March 24, the Supreme Court took an unambiguous stand in favour of free speech on the internet by striking down the now infamous Section…
IT Act: Industry tight-lipped on Supreme Court upholding content blocking rules
Free-speech activists and social media experts applauded the Supreme Court’s order to scrap a law that allowed police to arrest anyone posting “offensive” messages online,…