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cybersecurity

CERT-In Directions on Cybersecurity: An Explainer

On April 28, 2022, CERT-In issued directions aimed at strengthening India's cybersecurity. Issued without public consultations, these directions raise concerns related to state sponsored surveillance and data retention beyond need or purpose. We thus call on CERT-In to recall these directions.
05 May, 2022
8 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar, Anushka JainAnushka Jain & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
Parliament

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.
11 April, 2022
14 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi, Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Rohin GargRohin Garg
Breaches

Explainer: Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited Loan 'glitch'

Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited recently admitted to disbursing 84,000 loans without customer consent owing to a ‘technical glitch’. Though the bank took some steps upon the receipt of the complaints, there is little regulatory oversight and acknowledgement of these instances in general.
16 March, 2022
7 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Rohin GargRohin Garg
InDEA

A flawed idea of InDEA!

IFF submitted comments in the ongoing consultation for India Digital Ecosystem Architecture (InDEA) 2.0 released by the MeitY in January 2022. Our core approach is towards ensuring that the rollout of the architecture happens in a manner that safeguards the rights of the user.
26 February, 2022
5 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Rohin GargRohin Garg
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
Net Neutrality

Comments to the TRAI for the, "Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Promoting Data Economy Through Establishment of Data Centres, Content Delivery Networks, and Interconnect Exchanges"

IFF responded to TRAI’s consultation paper which sought the establishment of Data Centres, Content Delivery Networks, and Interconnect Exchanges. We submitted our comments as obvious issues of innovation that serve users, net neutrality and data protection emerge for consideration.
14 February, 2022
6 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar, Shivangani MisraShivangani Misra & Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Data Breach

Student data exposed on Andhra Pradesh Government Examination website!

> > > > tl;dr Sai Sravan Prabhala, a cyber-security researcher, informed us of a critical vulnerability exposing the sensitive personal information of minors. This existed on the website of the Directorate of Government Examinations, Government of Andhra Pradesh’s for the 2021 examinations. While this functionality itself has been removed, to prevent it from occurring again assisted by Sai, we have written to them and CERT-In. Background On 22nd December 2021, cyber-security researche
04 February, 2022
5 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
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
Legislative Brief

Legislative Brief on Digital Rights for Budget Session 2022

As the Budget Session of the Parliament commences, we have prepared our third legislative brief on digital rights to highlight some of the focus areas within the larger issues of technology policies and digital rights that call for the extensive deliberation in the houses of the Parliament.
03 February, 2022
7 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
vulnerability

IFF explains: An Election Commission vulnerability that could expose your phone number!

A vulnerability in the ECI’s National Voters Service Portal website was exposed by an independent security researcher in December last year. The vulnerability allowed access to un-redacted, registered phone numbers of voters. The vulnerability was eventually patched by the ECI IT team.
15 January, 2022
7 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Rohin GargRohin Garg

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