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Multiple Aspects Need to be Addressed as the Clamour Grows for Network Neutrality
- April 16, 2015
In the global debate there are four violations of Network Neutrality that are considered particularly egregious.
Read more →The Supreme Court Judgment in Shreya Singhal and What It Does for Intermediary Liability in India?
- April 11, 2015
Even as free speech advocates and users celebrate the Supreme Court of India's landmark judgment striking down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act of 2000, news that the Central government has begun work on drafting a new provision to replace the said section of the Act has been trickling in.
Read more →What Does Facebook's Transparency Report Tell Us About the Indian Government's Record on Free Expression & Privacy?
- April 05, 2015
Given India's online population, the number of user data requests made by the Indian government aren't very high, but the number of content restriction requests are not only high on an absolute number, but even on a per-user basis.
Read more →Security, Governments and Data: Technology and Policy
- April 04, 2015
On January 8, 2015, the Centre for Internet and Society, in collaboration with the Observer research foundation, hosted the day long conference "Security, Governments, and Data: Technology and Policy" The conference discussed a range of topics including internet governance, surveillance, privacy, and cyber security.
Read more →Three reasons why 66A verdict is momentous
- March 29, 2015
Earlier this week, the fundamental right to freedom of expression posted a momentous victory. The nation's top court struck down the much-reviled Section 66A of the IT Act — which criminalized communications that are "grossly offensive", cause "annoyance", etc — as "unconstitutionally vague", "arbitrarily, excessively, and disproportionately" encumbering freedom of speech, and likely to have a "chilling effect" on legitimate speech.
Read more →Big win for freedom of speech. Really?
- March 29, 2015
The 66A ruling was historic, but what about the provisions regulating speech online and offline that still exist within the ITA, the IPC and other laws.
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