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aarogyasetu

Delhi High Court directs government to submit affidavit confirming lack of written records in Aarogya Setu’s development

Updates on Saurav Das’ writ petition before the Delhi High Court, where he is contesting the Central Information Commission’s decision to withhold information related to Aarogya Setu.
16 September, 2023
4 min read
Gayatri MalhotraGayatri Malhotra & Tanmay SinghTanmay Singh
sensitive personal data

Delhi Police is Collecting Data from Persons in Delhi Hailing from NE States, Ladakh & Darjeeling. We wrote to the Delhi Police Commissioner Raising Our Concerns.

Delhi Police has reportedly initiated a data collection exercise, through which they have asked Delhi residents from the Northeastern states, Darjeeling and Ladakh to provide their personal information through a Google Form.
14 August, 2023
5 min read
Radhika RoyRadhika Roy
Surveillance

The impending EU AI Act and its potential effect on India’s AI Policy

The EU AI Act is moving forward swiftly. What does this mean for India?
23 May, 2023
4 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain
CCTV

The status of CCTV policing in India: 2023

Read our analysis of Chapter 5 of Common Cause & CDSD's Status of Policing in India Report 2023 which focuses specifically on CCTV cameras.
01 May, 2023
6 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain
CERT-In

Top Secret: One year on, CERT-In refuses to reveal information about compliance notices issued under its 2022 Directions on cybersecurity

To mark the first anniversary of the notification of the 2022 CERT-In Directions, we filed two Right to Information (“RTI”) applications with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, seeking details on the issuance of compliance notices under this new regulatory mandate.
28 April, 2023
4 min read
Gayatri MalhotraGayatri Malhotra
DPDPB, 2022

Read our public brief on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022

Our brief summarises the issues with the draft and tries to provide better insight into how they may be resolved.
16 February, 2023
6 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain
puttaswamy

Supreme Court directs WhatsApp to allow users to continue using WhatsApp without accepting its 2021 Privacy Policy

WhatsApp’s 2016 and 2021 privacy policy have been the subject of a long standing court challenge before the Delhi High Court. Today, the petition has been heard after 4 months.
01 February, 2023
5 min read
Tanmay SinghTanmay Singh
aadhaar

We wrote to the Tamil Nadu government on mandatory submission of Aadhaar: Voicing our fears of exclusion and privacy violation

We have written to the Finance Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Government highlighting our concerns of exclusion and privacy around the notification mandating linkage of Aadhaar to avail benefits under all State government schemes.
11 January, 2023
4 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
TRAI

TRAI-caller? We tell TRAI why a central registry is a bad idea.

We submit our comments on TRAI's consultation paper on the ‘Introduction of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) in Telecommunication Networks’. We emphasise on the need to obtain informed consent from subscribers and the need to use this service responsibly and ethically.
09 January, 2023
4 min read
Gyan TripathiGyan Tripathi & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
DPDPB, 2022

IFF's consultation response on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022

Read our consultation response for the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. Our main recommendation is that the bill should be recalled.
16 December, 2022
8 min read
Anushka JainAnushka Jain

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