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public consultation

Our letter to MeitY: Give us a fair chance and hear us out.

We wrote to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) on November 17, 2022, urging them to hold transparent and deliberative public consultations for the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (DPDPB, 2022) and the draft Digital India Bill.
21 November, 2022
3 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
Data Protection

IFF's first read of the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 is here! Read our initial thoughts and concerns surrounding the long awaited legislation.
18 November, 2022
6 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain, Krishnesh BapatKrishnesh Bapat & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
transparency

Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for October 2022

For the month of October 2022, IFF has filed 03 Right to Information (“RTI”) applications, 01 first appeal.
18 November, 2022
2 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
Public Brief

A public brief on the IT Amendment Rules, 2022 a.k.a ‘how the government is trying to moderate online speech’

MeitY notified the amendments to the IT Rules, 2021 on October 28, 2022. In light of the concerns raised by the notified amendments around the freedom of speech and expression of users, we are publishing our Public Brief on the IT Amendment Rules, 2022.
10 November, 2022
10 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
Social Media

A round-up of WhatsApp’s failed attempts to block the Competition Commission’s investigation

In October 2021, IFF submitted expert information in the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) suo moto investigation into potential anti-competitive practices of WhatsApp Inc. (‘WhatsApp).
31 October, 2022
5 min read
Tanmay SinghTanmay Singh
IT Rules, 2021

IFF's Statement on the notified IT Rules Amendment, 2022

IFF's statement on the notified IT Rules Amendment, 2022. We urge for thoughtful consideration by MeitY to formulate a rights-respecting approach towards platform regulation. A step in that direction would be to withdraw IT Rules, 2021 in its entirety.
28 October, 2022
3 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi
aadhaar

How to protect yourself from coercive Aadhaar-Voter ID linking

We provide resources to ensure that citizens can protect themselves from coercive linking of Aadhaar with their Voter ID.
28 October, 2022
4 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain
FoE-Con2022

Starting impolite conversations #FoECon 2022

The pandemic took away fundamental means to foster community engagement - it took away a sense of belonging that professionals achieve through personal interactions. For our community in Delhi, we in collaboration with NewsLaundry co-organized the first edition of FoE Con 2022 titled “Impolite” Conversations. When journalists and lawyers talk If we look at several Democracy and Press Freedom Rankings, India presents a shrinking civic space and funding for investigative and critical journalism
28 October, 2022
4 min read
Anandita MishraAnandita Mishra
69A

Karnataka HC refuses to permit an impacted user to intervene in Twitter’s Petition against censorship orders

Mr Patel approached the Court to highlight the concerns of users who are not heard by MeitY before their accounts on Twitter are censored.
27 October, 2022
4 min read
Krishnesh BapatKrishnesh Bapat
Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022

Return to Sender : IFF's submission to the draft Telecom Bill, 2022

The draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 was released for public consultation on September 21, 2022. We publish a public brief, which forms a part of our consultation response, where we identify and analyse specific issues with the Telecom Bill, 2022 and call for its recall.
27 October, 2022
9 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar, Anushka JainAnushka Jain & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre

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