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Net Neutrality

Our Summary of the OTT Consultation Paper #SaveTheInternet #NetNeutrality

The OTT Consultation Paper released on November 12, 2018 by TRAI runs into close to 42 pages and to make the best use of your time and get you to read it we made a 5 page summary.
15 November, 2018
3 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Featured

Section 66A and other legal zombies #IFFresearch #RightToMeme

Today marks Halloween, which is increasingly a day marked in urban India. It is a testament to our syncretic culture that a Halloween celebration gives occasion for people to express themselves with pageantry and costume. Timely as it may seem we take today not only with irreverence but also some seriousness when we call Section 66-A a legal zombie. Why ? You must have heard about Section 66-A. It was a criminal offence which was vague and was used to jail people for comments they made onlin
31 October, 2018
1 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

We urge disclosure on how India's privacy law is being made #SaveOurPrivacy

This week IFF filed RTIs (Right to Information Requests) with the Ministry of Electronics and IT for the consultation on the Draft Data Protection Bill [http://meity.gov.in/content/feedback-draft-personal-data-protection-bill]. This was to support the ongoing community effort to ensure a strong, user centric privacy law in India. We were spurred into action noticing that newspaper reports indicated only 400 responses were submitted [https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/it-min-gets-over
20 October, 2018
1 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Net Neutrality

Another step forward in India’s leadership on #NetNeutrality #SaveTheInternet

DOT makes important license amendments acting on TRAI recommendations. The landscape will now shift from rulemaking to enforcement.
18 October, 2018
4 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

Submission to Law Commission to Scrap Sedition #RightToMeme

The law commission on August 30, 2018 invited public inputs on the law of sedition posing in its first query as whether this archaic law should be repealed. We agree unequivocally, sedition contained in Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code needs to be struck off the statute books, completely. As we documented in our submission [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WNyOdbP7zErHBeOVcNuC9TtJhVrPoAP8/view?usp=sharing] to them this is a law which is not only abused against social media users, it causes
28 September, 2018
1 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

Looking towards the future

The Internet Freedom Foundation made its first public post [https://static.internetfreedom.in/hello-world/] on Independence Day, 2016 with the ideal of building an organisation that is an effective advocate for digital rights in India. Over the last two years we've campaigned against internet shutdowns [https://keepusonline.in], for implementation of net neutrality [https://static.internetfreedom.in/complete-net-neutrality-in-india-one-step-closer-to-the-finish-line/] and legal reforms to comba
27 September, 2018
3 min read
Aravind R SAravind R S, Raman Jit Singh ChimaRaman Jit Singh Chima & Rachita TanejaRachita Taneja

Reactions to the Aadhaar Judgement

Yesterday the Supreme Court pronounced a historic judgement on the constitutionality of the Aadhaar, biometric programme. We urge people to read this statement [https://rethinkaadhaar.in/blog/2018/9/26/press-statement-on-supreme-court-5-judge-bench-ruling-on-aadhaar-challenges] by our friends at Rethink Aadhaar [https://twitter.com/no2uid/] that contains a considered public response to it. Rethink Aadhaar's statement clearly sets out that there is a need for sustained engagement on the issue o
27 September, 2018
1 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

The legal disconnect: An analysis of India’s Internet Shutdown Laws #KeepUsOnline

As concerns increase in India about the increasing number of shutdowns, Nakul Nayak has authored a paper with a legal analysis of the legal regime on it ( click here [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3254857]). Nakul consults as a legal fellow at the Internet Freedom Foundation on online censorship concentrating on online shutdowns and his analysis confirms that the new rules on internet shutdowns issued in August, 2018 are secretive in their operation, lack sufficient safegua
25 September, 2018
1 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta
Privacy
Featured

#SaveOurPrivacy initial statement on Justice Srikrishna Committee Report

Originally posted on SaveOurPrivacy.in [https://saveourprivacy.in/blog/initial-statement-on-justice-srikrishna-committee-report] The Expert Committee chaired by Retd. Justice B.N. Srikrishna submitted its 176 page report [http://meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Data_Protection_Committee_Report.pdf] to the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology at 1600 Hrs on 27 July 2018 (today). The Committee also submitted a draft of the legislation on data protection titled, ‘The Personal Data P
27 July, 2018
3 min read
IFF Public Policy TeamIFF Public Policy Team

Complete Net Neutrality in India. One step closer to the finish line.

Complete Net Neutrality in India. One step closer to the finish line. Towards yesterday evening we heard news that the Telecom Commission had among other things approved TRAI’s recommendations on net neutrality. The Process Last November, the TRAI made recommendations to expressly prohibit discriminatory treatment of content (more information here) [https://static.internetfreedom.in/trais-recommendations-are-another-big-victory-for-net-neutrality-but-follow-up-action-is-needed/] . The Telecom
13 July, 2018
2 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta

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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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