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Apar Gupta

#SaveOurPrivacy a community project powered by IFF

Today we launched a community, public interest project called, “Save Our Privacy” [https://saveourprivacy.in/] to assist an effort to put forth a model citizens bill on data protection that safeguards your right to privacy. This model bill titled as the, "Indian Privacy Code, 2018", has been drafted by a group of lawyers, many of whom made a joint submission to the Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee on its call for comments on a white paper. Given the concerns which have been repeatedly made o

Stop the "Social Media Communication Hub" #SaveOurPrivacy

We often feel we are under constant watch. Our data is gathered continuously and analysed by social networking websites. It can't get worse, or can it? Well, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting now wants to surveil our social media activities by creating a “Social Media Communication Hub”. Through a tender [http://www.becil.com/uploads/tender/TendernoticeBECIL01pdf-04836224e38fdb96422221c4e057f6c5.pdf] that was supposed to close today at noon but has now been extended to June 16 [htt

Ministry of Telecom, call us maybe? #KeepUsOnline

Just like us, sometimes the government does not wake up to the first-morning alarm. But we ask [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E1oao2HHcjkWLQy5OtF4G7D1Wr_ts9XK/view?usp=sharing] the Ministry of Telecom to stop pressing the snooze button on the issue of Internet Shutdowns. Network disruptions require urgent policy and legal intervention. When we launched, KeepUsOnline [https://keepusonline.in] campaign more than 16,000 people and 100 organisations clearly communicated to the Government that th

Standing Committee on IT can do more to #SaveOurPrivacy

In April, we corresponded [https://static.internetfreedom.in/standing-it-letter/] with the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology when we learnt that it was conducting hearings on ‘Citizen’s Data Security and Privacy’, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations and the longer discussion in India around data privacy. Last week we learned that the Committee has through a press release taken up the citizen demand for public consultation [link] [http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintR

Dear Prime Minister KeepUsOnline

Just like you, we really do care about the internet. It acts as an engine for our economy, allows incredible amounts of individual expression and fosters social connections like never before. Much of the progress we have made is under threat as governments shut down the Internet in different parts of the country. That's why we launched https://KeepUsOnline.in. Given this continuing concern, we have written to the Prime Minister’s Office to issue a statement against internet shutdowns and have a

Standing Committee on IT must act to Save Our Privacy

Today, the Internet Freedom Foundation [http://www.internetfreedom.in], wrote a letter to the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Shri Anurag Thakur and composed of Members of Parliament from both houses, on the hearings set up by it on the subject of ‘Citizen’s Data Security and Privacy’. In this letter, IFF has reiterated the ask it initially made on April 5 requesting that the Standing Committee of IT open up its inquiry on citizen’s data security and privacy

Updates on the Whatsapp Case

We had earlier updated [https://www.internetfreedom.in/iff-will-represent-your-digital-rights-in-the-whatsapp-privacy-case/] that IFF has intervened in a case involving issues of online privacy and licensing of online platforms before the Supreme Court of India. This case arises from a challenge to the change in Whatsapp privacy policy after which it began sharing data with Facebook. For those who are looking for more background on the case one of our earlier posts which is available here conta

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