Supreme Court directs anti-porn petition to be placed before Cyber Regulations Advisory Committee
A petition filed by Indore-based lawyer Kamlesh Vaswani seeking to restrict India’s access to pornographic content on the Internet was heard by the Supreme Court…
A Report On The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011
SFLC.in released the report, “Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 – An Analysis” on Thursday, July 24, 2014. The report was released jointly by Members…
SFLC.in’s Submission To The Consultation Paper on Media law
In May 2013, the Law Commission of India had issued a Consultation Paper on Media law, where the Commission invited comments from stakeholders and the…
Dan Geer on cyber-security policy
Black Hat is a global information security event series that provides attendees with the latest in information security research, development, and trends in a vendor-neutral…
International FOSS News – August 2014
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Revives 1970s-Era Satellite With FOSS Program GNU Radio http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-space-gnu-radio-and-the-isee-3-spacecraft http://www.nasa.gov/content/isee-3-an-old-friend-comes-to-visit-earth/ http://www.universetoday.com/113733/isee-3-completes-lunar-flyby-begins-a-citizen-science-program/ http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki The ISEE-3 satellite lay abandoned until a crowd-funded effort to…
Poet & Writer arrested in Rampur For Criticising The Actions of State Government Following The Suspension Of A Young Civil Servant.
Kanwal Bharti, a writer based in Rampur was arrested, for posting a comment about Azam Khan on Facebook, on the basis of a complaint filed…
Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF)
Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF), scheduled to be held from 3rdto 6thAugust 2014. We are organizing four workshops at this event. The APrIGF –…
IT (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011
Report On IT (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 SFLC.in released the report, “Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 – An Analysis” on Thursday, July 24, 2014….
Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 – An Analysis
The Government notified the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules in April 2011 prescribing guidelines for the intermediaries. However these Rules raise serious concerns since neither…
Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 – An Analysis
The Government notified the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules in April 2011 prescribing guidelines for the intermediaries. However these Rules raise serious concerns since neither…
Press Release dt. 23/07/2014
MPs to Release A Report On the Internet Law New Delhi, India : SFLC.in, a Delhi based legal services organisation, is releasing a report titled…
Invitation : Release of Report on IT (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules
Intermediaries like Internet Service Providers and social networking sites were provided safe harbour protection from liability arising out of user generated content by an amendment…