Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for April 2022
For the month of April 2022, IFF has filed 40 RTI requests.
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Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for March 2022
Since our last report for the month of February, IFF has filed 33 RTI requests and 17 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.
News publishers furnish their details voluntarily, MIB claims in RTI Appeal
News publishers were sent notices under the IT Rules, even after major parts of the IT Rules were stayed. The MIB said that news publishers have only offered this information “voluntarily”, i.e. that there is no compulsion to respond to them.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for February 2022
For the month of February 2022, IFF has filed 36 RTI requests and 3 first appeals.
#SocialMediaComplianceWatch: analysis of Social Media Compliance Reports for the month of December 2021
Google (including YouTube), Facebook, Instagram (now Meta), ShareChat, Snap, Twitter and WhatsApp have released their reports under Rule 4(1)(d) of the IT Rules 2021 for the month of Dec '21. The latest of these was published by Meta and was made available in late Jan '22. We've analysed them.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for January 2022
Since our last report for the month of December, IFF has filed 10 RTI requests and 2 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.
Revealed: Over two thousand news publishers furnished their details to the MIB, despite Bombay HC’s stay
IFF filed an RTI Application to find out whether the MIB has issued notices for information to news publishers, and to which publishers. The MIB has admitted that it has indeed issued two such notices, and that more than two thousand publishers have responded to these notices!
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for December 2021
Since our last report for the month of November, IFF has filed 21 RTI requests and 5 first appeals. In this post, we give you an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.
#SocialMediaComplianceWatch: analysis of Social Media Compliance Reports of September, 2021
SSMI reports in compliance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 have been analysed for the month of September.
Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for November 2021
Since our last report for the month of September, IFF has filed 37 RTI requests and 1 first appeal. Here is an overview of the requests filed and an analysis of the responses we have received from the different public authorities.