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Censorship

Online video streaming and TV are not the same. So why is the IAMAI trying to make it so?

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) launched a self-regulation code for online video streaming platforms. We have written to IAMAI asking them to roll it back since it is a precursor to self-censorship.
10 February, 2020
5 min read
Devdutta MukhopadhyayDevdutta Mukhopadhyay

IFF’s Team 2020 : Effective, motivated and community centric

Meet our team 2020!
05 February, 2020
4 min read
Shivani SinghShivani Singh
internet shutdowns

Foundation for Media Professionals approaches J&K Govt seeking compliance with SC judgement

FMP writes to Govt of Jammu & Kashmir demanding compliance with the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court and highlighting unconstitutionality and technical infeasibility of a whitelisting regime of internet censorship.
30 January, 2020
3 min read
Devdutta MukhopadhyayDevdutta Mukhopadhyay
Policy

Women deserve both privacy and safety

The WCD Ministry has approved use of the Nirbhaya Fund for large scale installation of CCTV cameras. This kind of mass video surveillance without adequate safeguards is likely to be ineffective and counterproductive.
28 January, 2020
3 min read
Devdutta MukhopadhyayDevdutta Mukhopadhyay
republic day letter

Notes from a Digital Republic

A note from IFF to it's broader community on the 71st Republic day.
26 January, 2020
4 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Data Protection

Educate and advocate for better privacy protection before the Data Protection JPC

Read SaveOurPrivacy.in's analysis of the PDP Bill, 2019. This helps you form your views and participate in the invitation to public comments invited by the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
25 January, 2020
2 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
SaveOurPrivacy

It's the final countdown (kinda) on the Data Protection Bill #SaveOurPrivacy

Joint parliamentary committee invites evidence on the Data Protection Bill, 2019.
24 January, 2020
2 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Censorship

Indian Journalists Union defends media's right to report on MeToo allegations

In the latest hearing in Subodh Gupta's defamation suit, IJU emphasized that news reports cannot be de-indexed without providing the journalists a hearing and argued there was a distinction between merely republishing defamatory allegations and reporting on them.
23 January, 2020
4 min read
Devdutta MukhopadhyayDevdutta Mukhopadhyay
budget

Four ways how the 2020 budget can promote the digital economy and rights

We have made 4 recommendations to the Ministry of Finance for the Union Budget 2020-21.
21 January, 2020
2 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
savetheinternet

Read our summary of TRAI’s consultation paper on net neutrality enforcement #SaveTheInternet

Read our summary and participate in TRAI's Consultation on Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality by Jan. 31, 2020.
15 January, 2020
3 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

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Campaigns & Projects

The Digital Patrakar Defence Clinic provides pro bono legal assistance to all journalists in India who face legal threats related to their reporting.

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IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

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#SaveOurPrivacy is an online collective launched in May, 2018 to safeguard your privacy and ensure a citizen centric data protection law.

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The ‘Zombie Tracker’ is a platform which monitors cases which include a charge under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 which was deemed unconstitutional by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Shreya Singhal v Union of India.

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