Latest Draft Intermediary Rules: Fixing big tech, by breaking our digital rights?
Everything that has happened and is happening with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
MHA's new programme allows volunteers to report "anti-national" online content for removal
A new programme allows citizens to register themselves as "unlawful content flaggers" to report online content for removal. Mindful of the chilling effect this could have on free speech on the internet, we wrote to the MHA highlighting our concerns related to the programme.
The Increasing Use of Facial Recognition Technology in India
In a letter to the Parliamentary Standing Committee, we relay our concerns to them and ask them to call relevant stakeholders such as ministry officials and privacy experts to depose before them.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for January, 2021
Read more about RTI work for the month of January, 2021.
A rose by any other name? CBSE's face matching technology is just facial recognition in disguise
Read our representation to CBSE highlighting the concerns that come along with the use of facial recognition technology which they have put in place for accessing digital documents.
We wrote to the UGC and the Ministry of Education on exam proctoring
Following multiple reports of the use of exam proctoring technology by various universities across the country, we wrote to the University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Education.