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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 →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
AI for Healthcare: Understanding Data Supply Chain and Auditability in India
- November 29, 2024
This report aims to understand the prevalence and use of AI auditing practices in the healthcare sector. By mapping the data supply chain underlying AI technologies, the study aims to unpack i) how AI systems are developed and deployed to achieve healthcare outcomes and, ii) how AI audits are perceived and implemented by key stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.
Read more →Online Censorship: Perspectives From Content Creators and Comparative Law on Section 69A of the Information Technology Act
- August 26, 2024
This study presents a comparative analysis of Indian censorship law and experiences of people who have had their online content censored.
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 →Legal Advocacy Manual
- July 01, 2024
The Legal Advocacy Manual summarizes the key legal and constitutional questions and jurisprudence related to laws that affect the right to freedom of expression and privacy online, including internet shutdowns, content takedown, online surveillance and device seizure.
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.
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