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…
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…