Internet Governance Blog
The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and feedback to the: Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025
- March 06, 2025
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments and feedback to the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 initiated by the Indian government.
Read more →The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development
- March 06, 2025
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments and recommendations on the Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development.
Read more →Submission to IGF 2025 Call for Thematic Inputs
- February 14, 2025
Below are CIS's inputs submitted in response to the IGF 2025 Call for Thematic Inputs. They will inform the MAG’s discussions and assist them in determining the thematic priorities of the IGF 2025 programme.
Read more →Privacy Policy Framework for Indian Mental Health Apps
- January 10, 2025
This report analyses the privacy policies of mental health apps in India and provides recommendations for making the policies not only legally compliant but also user-centric
Read more →Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence and Women’s Political Participation in India: A Position Paper
- December 18, 2024
Digital Rights and ISP Accountability in India: An Analysis of Policies and Practices
- January 23, 2025
This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of India's four largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Idea (Vi), and BSNL—examining their commitment to digital rights and transparency.
Read more →Draft Circular on Digital Lending – Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders
- July 03, 2024
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments on the “Draft Circular on Digital Lending: Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders” to the Reserve Bank of India. We welcome the opportunity provided to comment on the guidelines, and we hope that the final guidelines will consider the interests of all the stakeholders to ensure that it protects the privacy and digital rights of all consumers, including marginalised and vulnerable users, while encouraging innovation and improved service delivery in the fintech ecosystem. Our comments look at two concerns addressed by the draft guidelines, i.e. reducing information asymmetry and market fairness. In addition to this we share comments around a third concern that requires additional scrutiny, i.e. data privacy and security.
Read more →Comments to the Draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024
- May 16, 2024
This submission is a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society India (CIS) to the draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024, published by the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), (hereafter “draft DCB” or “draft Bill”).
Read more →Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
- April 06, 2024
On 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
Read more →Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU
- February 17, 2024
This policy paper is the result of a workshop organised jointly by the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Netherlands, the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi, India and the Centre for Internet & Society, India in January, 2023. The workshop brought together a number of academics, researchers, and industry representatives in Delhi to discuss a range of issues at the core of data governance theory and practice.
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