India s new social media rules give the government broad powers to block some content and break encryption. It s the latest in a standoff with tech companies over censorship, privacy and free speech.
It’s faulty, struggling to scale, lacks a dedicated privacy policy Share
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As India struggles to cope with its savage second wave of COVID-19 infections, its government is being criticised for an API that critics say is creating inequities in the nation’s vaccination program.
The API in question, Co-WIN, is designed to tap India’s vaccination-booking service and has been made available to third-party app developers in the hope that innovators find clever ways to get Indians signed up for their jabs.
India has made use of vaccination booking services powered by Co-WIN compulsory for people aged 18 to 44.
Calls for jabs market to be abandoned, and local vaccine IP to be freed Share
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India s Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), an organisation that aims to to protect freedom in the digital world and advocates for the development and use of open-source software, has helped to prepare a lawsuit that calls for changes to the nation s vaccine pricing policy and rollout plans.
Which may seem like a very odd thing for an open-source organisation to do, especially during the very severe second wave of COVID-19 infections that has seen almost two million Indian residents contract the illness in the last week alone.
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