#InternetFreedom

Let India Breathe Statement on #InternetCensorshipToday, we are reaching out to our community and large, diverse base of volunteers to inform them about an unprecedented act of internet censorship. (1/11)#InternetFreedom
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Today we sent a legal notice to BECIL against a tender for procurement of fact verification and disinformation detection tools which will lead to mass surveillance of social media users.
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SC will hear a plea seeking restoration of 4G internet services in J&K in light of the #COVIDー19 pandemic.A bench of Justices NV Ramana, R. Subhash Reddy & B R
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We are very excited to announce the inaugural talk for #PrivacySupreme - 'Where the mind is without fear: Using encryption to ensure freedom' with Debayan Gupta, happening on August 15,
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My students just completed a module titled "Liberty in the Technological State" in my Sc, Tech & IR course.Health surveillance is necessary in a pandemic but the extensive data collection
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Remember how the CIC called the govt's evasive RTI replies about Aarogya Setu "preposterous"? Well, the show cause hearing in the matter is scheduled for tomorrow but @OfficialSauravD isn't being
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In the 2nd part of our Watch the Watchmen series, we examine the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS) which aims to automate the process of lawful interception & monitoring of telecommunications.
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The NCRB has sought to revise its Request for Proposals for tender bids for the creation of a National Automated Facial Recognition System acc. to an update dated March 23,
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IFF has filed multiple Right to Information requests with various governmental authorities to extract all relevant information pertaining to @SetuAarogya @GoI_MeitY @NICMeity @NITIAayog @MoHFW_INDIA 1/nhttps://internetfreedom.in/aarogya-set
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Here's a link to @internetfreedom's paper which unpacks the challenges with tech deployments and surveillance responses to COVID-19. This has been a labour of love & would request stakeholders to
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Click here to read a short explainer of the working paper’s analysis of @SetuAarogya and the privacy risks therein. 1/9https://internetfreedom.in/is-aarogya-setu-privacy-first-nope-but-it-could-be-if-the-government-wanted/ Contact tracing was studied
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A quick note on phone tapping. It is, unfortunately, something that is left to the arbitrary discretion of the government, and at the root of this situation (unsurprisingly) is a
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In some convenient timing the Facebook oversight board has released a decision relating to the BJP ordering it to restore a post. Let us look at it in context. Link
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On May 11 @GOI_MeitY published the Aarogya Setu data access and sharing protocol, signed by @SecretaryMEITY. IFF has done a clause by clause analysis of the Protocol and found many
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As we gear up to get back to work at 9 AM after a long weekend. Remember that we have unrestricted internet access. Meanwhile, 30th May will mark 300 days
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THIS IS HUGE !! An user of a hacking forum along with his partner are selling personal data of 700K+ users for just $350 which they have allegedly stolen from
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