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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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…