FOSS news – August 2015
Croatian policy encourages open source adoption Earlier this year, Croatian political party Sustainable Development of Croatia (ORaH) published a new policy that encourages the government…
How the news media is accessing Indrani Mukherjea’s entire virtual life..
Indrani Mukherjea is on the cover page of every news website today, in pictures where she is hugging her husband, Peter Mukherjea, or posing solo,…
A closer look at Facebook’s Terms of Service
Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign-up to use Facebook? Find out here
Solution to online privacy issues soon
New Version of FreedomBox Offers private, secure, Fault-Tolerant Internet Access At a time when privacy in internet is becoming a concern world over, free software…
DOT orders blockage of porn websites
A leaked order from the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has revealed that Indian Internet Service Providers (ISP) have been directed to block access to a…
Instituting the Freedom to Share
Prof. Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary wrote an op-ed that appeared in The Hindu on March 20, 2015, discussing the need for a national innovation…
Edx.org course on “Innovation and IT Management”
Prof. Rahul De, Board member, SFLC.in and Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is offering a course on “Innovation and IT Management”, starting…
Core recommendations of the DOT Committee on net-neutrality
In light of the emergence of net-neutrality and regulation of Over-the-Top (OTT) services as popular topics in national policy debates, in January 2015, the Department…
Mishi Choudhary named as Asia 21 Young Leader by Asia Society
Mishi Choudhary, Executive Director, SFLC.in has been selected by Asia society to be part of the Class of 2015 Asia 21 Young Leaders, the preeminent…
SC refuses to issue interim order blocking pornographic content on the Internet; says it would violate Article 21
A writ petition filed by an Indore-based lawyer – Kamlesh Vaswani – seeking to prohibit and criminalize the viewing of Internet porn was taken up…
Subramaniam Swamy v. Union of India [W.P. (Crl) 184 of 2014]
Subramaniam Swamy, petitioner, is a politician from the State of Tamil Nadu. The petitioner has challenged provisions of the Indian Penal Code that criminalize defamation…
Foss News- June 2015
How open software has become a source of grief for tech majors like Cisco, IBM & Oracle Read more : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/47521852.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppstIndustry bodies US-India Business Council…
