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The ninth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from 2nd to 5th September, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. The overarching theme…

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…

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), scheduled to be held from 3rdto 6thAugust 2014. We are organizing four workshops at this event. The APrIGF –…

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….

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…

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…

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…

Report On IT (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 SFLC.in would be releasing a report titled, “Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 – An Analysis” on Thursday,…

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…

United States Supreme Court Decides Two Important Cases in the IT Sector. Alice v. CLS Bank: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-298_7lh8.pdf http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/06/alice_v_cls_bank_supreme_court_gets_software_patent_ruling_right.html https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2014/alice_v_cls-resources.html ABC v. Aereo: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-461_l537.pdf http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/aereo-loses-in-supreme-court-deemed-illegal/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/business/media/supreme-court-rules-against-aereo-in-broadcasters-challenge.html?_r=0…

While the ubiquitous presence of pornographic content on the internet is just another fact of life to the average internet user, two petitions that seek…