Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for April 2022
For the month of April 2022, IFF has filed 40 RTI requests.
Budget Session 2022: A Digital Rights Review
In the recently concluded Budget Session, we saw several key issues being taken up as part of the budget deliberations in both the Houses. In this post, we take a look at these disruptions and analyse how the Parliament fared with respect to digital rights.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for March 2022
Since our last report for the month of February, IFF has filed 33 RTI requests and 17 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for February 2022
For the month of February 2022, IFF has filed 36 RTI requests and 3 first appeals.
Summary of India Digital Ecosystem Architecture (InDEA) 2.0
In this post, we have presented a non-opinionated summary of MeitY's InDEA 2.0 paper, focussing on the data-rights-centric parts of the document. Through this summary, we hope to better inform public awareness and increase public participation on the issue.
NIXI’s justification for 2 domains per person? National Security
In December 2021, NIXI published an undated notice stating that if any entity wants to register for more than two [dot]in domains, they'll have to seek written permission from the NIXI CEO. In our RTI request, NIXI responded stating that the notice was issued for "national security".
Conflicted sentiments: Analysing Budget 2022-23 trends
Budget 2022-2023 evokes conflicted sentiments. IFF attempts to analyse the highs and lows of the Union Budget, with a special focus on DoT, MeitY and MIB.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for January 2022
Since our last report for the month of December, IFF has filed 10 RTI requests and 2 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.
IFF submits its comments on the Draft Health Data Retention Policy
IFF has provided our comments on the Consultation Paper on Proposed Health Data Retention Policy. In our comments, we have tried to highlight the harms of mandatory data retention, issues around a fragmented healthcare regime and data portability issues.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for December 2021
Since our last report for the month of November, IFF has filed 21 RTI requests and 5 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.