Internet services in Punjab were shut down from March 18 till March 21 (in some districts till March 24). Reportedly, around 120 twitter accounts were suspended/ withheld. We wrote to the Punjab government and MeitY raising concerns about the internet shutdown and withheld accounts, respectively.
We wrote to the 4 municipal corporations that were directed by the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis to furnish a status report on the ongoing surveillance of sanitation workers.
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is alarmed by the illegal censorship continuing in the State of Punjab.
In this post, we analyse the 40 comments submitted in response to TRAI's consultation paper titled ‘Consultation Paper on Introduction of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) in Telecommunication Networks’, highlighting privacy concerns, especially in the absence of a data protection law.