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The Jharkhand High Court while issuing a verdict in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by the Software Freedom Law Center, India, has directed the State Government to upload all previous...

A study found the support for policing techniques that rely on security cameras and drones goes up with income levels.

SFLC.in said that the order for blocking the applications places unreasonable restrictions on the exercise of freedom of speech and expression.

Section 69A of IT Act, 2000, court orders, and obscenity were the 3 major grounds for blocking of websites in India, SFLC report states

The simplified 24-page data protection Bill has already received a barrage of criticism for diluting many of the previous provisions.

Interim orders to take down criticism from the internet and asking people to refrain from speaking against those in power have become the norm, lawyers say.

‘It’s a matter of a few days before the revised bill is uploaded for consultation’

Now that the process of drafting the bill has started afresh, concerns around data localisation and exemptions given to the government must be addressed

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, was withdrawn by the Center on August 3; a replacement Bill will be introduced. The Joint Parliamentary committee's members were informed by Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw of her decision to withdraw due to the 81 revisions and 12 recommendations made 'toward a comprehensive legal framework.' 'A thorough legislative framework is being developed in light of the JCP's report. Therefore, it is sug...

One of our colleagues recently woke up to hundreds of OTP messages from food delivery platforms like Zomato, Zepto, and Licious, all within a span of a few hours. He had just become the victim of what is called SMS Bombing where a user's number is bombarded with a large number of messages or even