Manoj Oswal v. Union of India [W.P. (Crl.) No. 225/2013]
The petitioner is a social activist and Unit Head of animal rights’ organization, ‘People for Animals’. Petitioner seeks to declare Section 66A of the IT…
Supreme Court hearing on IT Act petitions
This post attempts to summarise the proceedings before the Apex Court where all the petitions challenging various provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and…
India’s surveillance state: Procedural legal framework
Following the previous post, which examined the relevant statutory provisions that establish the substantive framework governing Indian communications surveillance, we now turn to the statutory…
First Asian Legal Network Round Table on Free and Open Source Software
SFLC.IN in collaboration with Open Invention Network (OIN) is organising the First Asian Legal Network (ALN) round-table on ‘Free and Open Source Software’ at ‘The…
India’s surveillance state: Substantive legal framework
In this post, we will take a quick look at the relevant statutory provisions that establish the substantive framework governing Indian communications surveillance (this excludes…
FOSS News – November 2014
Microsoft Open Sources .NET http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/ http://www.wired.com/2014/11/microsoft-open-sources-net-says-will-run-linux-mac/ https://github.com/dotnet On Wednesday November 12th, Microsoft announced that it will open source most of the server-side .NET framework, and…
India’s surveillance state: an overview
Just over a year ago, the world was treated to a rude awakening by a hitherto unknown Edward Snowden, when he made public thousands of…
CCA RTI reply hides more than what it reveals
One of the several provisions that gives the government lawful access to data is Section 28 of the Information Technology Act 2000. This section provides…
FOSS News – October 2014
Bitcoin-based “World Citizenship Passport” project: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthickey/2014/10/31/open-source-project-could-replace-traditional-passports-with-bitcoin-tech/ To those who are only marginally familiar with bitcoin, the world’s leading digital cryptocurrency, the idea of adapting the…
The Curious Case Of The Monkey-Photographer
It all started with a rather spectacular selfie taken by an Indonesian macaque in 2011. British nature photographer David Slater was combing Indonesian jungles for…
Cryptoparty in Delhi
SFLC.in in association with Hoot will be organizing a Cryptoparty for journalists and bloggers in Delhi. It will be a hands-on workshop that will talk…
FOSS Newsletter – Sep 2014
## Qt adds LGPLv3 Licensing * <http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/20/adding-lgpl-v3-to-qt/> Digia, developers of the Qt cross-platform application framework announced in August that it will be adding LGPLv3 as…