The 66A Rigmarole
The recent arrest of a writer in Karnataka over alleged Facebook posts making sexist and derogatory comments about a social activist on Facebook, has once…
SFLC.in nominated for Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prize
SFLC.in was nominated and among a select few finalists for the inaugural Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression Award in the Excellence in Legal Service….
Software Biggies Wary of Open Source Development
On March 5, 2015, the Economic Times carried a report on the rising levels of concern among proprietary software vendors over the Indian Government’s increasing…
Union Budget 2015-16 | Coverage & Analysis
SFLC.in board member Prof Rahul De talked about Union Budget 2015 at an expert panel hosted by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Link to the…
FOSS News – February 2015
Mark Webbink Named New Chairman of SFLC Board https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2015/feb/05/webbink/ The Software Freedom Law Center announced in early February that Mark Webbink has been elected the…
India’s surveillance state: Other provisions of law that enable collection of user information
While Section 5(2) of the Telegraph Act and Sections 69 and 69B of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) collectively set the stage for direct…
SFLC.in’s comments on the First Draft of the National IP Policy
In December 2014, the Government of India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) invited stakeholder comments on the First Draft of the National IP…
FOSS news – January 2015
Cyanogen aims to make Android a fully open platform http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/26/cyanogen-aims-to-make-android-a-fully-open.html Cyanogen Chief Executive Kirt McMaster is taking the first shot in a revolt against Google….
Internet and Mobile Association of India & Anr. v. U.O.I. & Anr. [W.P. (C) No. 758/2014]
The petition has been filed by a non-profit making industry body challenging the constitutionality of Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and sub-Rules…
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…