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Gyan Tripathi

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internet shutdowns

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.
01 April, 2022
5 min read
Shivangani MisraShivangani Misra & Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
transparency

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.
01 March, 2022
5 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
MeitY

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.
16 February, 2022
3 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi, Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Rohin GargRohin Garg
NIXI

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".
15 February, 2022
5 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
Budget2022

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.
03 February, 2022
8 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar, Simrandeep SinghSimrandeep Singh & Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
transparency

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.
02 February, 2022
4 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi & Anushka JainAnushka Jain
Health Data

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.
06 January, 2022
7 min read
Rohin GargRohin Garg & Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
transparency

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.
04 January, 2022
6 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi & Anushka JainAnushka Jain
Parliament

Winter Session 2021: A Digital Rights Review

The Winter session saw frequent disruptions. However, with the JPC reports being tabled, the Parliament proved to be crucial for digital rights.
25 December, 2021
8 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi & Rohin GargRohin Garg
PDPB

Comparing the Draft Data Protection Bill, 2021 with its predecessors

How have user rights fared through the multiple iterations of India's data protection law? In this post, we compare the latest version of the Bill to earlier versions to fund out.
17 December, 2021
12 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain, Krishnesh BapatKrishnesh Bapat, Rohin GargRohin Garg, Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi & Simrandeep SinghSimrandeep Singh

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