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Apar Gupta details the way in which technology can be used to deepen police abuses and erosion of democratic freedoms.

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has called for the withdrawal and reconsideration of the Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy.

The government should not own data or charge a price for the sharing data, SFLC said in its feedback on the draft data access policy.

Govt sold vehicular data to private firm years before formulating data sharing policy: Report 3 hours ago We missed this earlier: In a September 2014 deal, the Indian government sold a copy of the country’s entire vehicle registration database to a private Indian company. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) database sold, in objection of government officials around pricing, to Fast Lane Automotive Pvt. Ltd. These revelations were reported by The Reporters’ Collective on the basis of RTIs filed by the Srinivas Kodali and Sreegireesh Jalihal. The deal was signed five years bef...

Govt Scrapped Vehicular Bulk Data Deal Over Privacy Issues. But a German Firm Was Already Involved. The partnership with German firm ManServ, in Fast Lane’s own written admission, included sharing of “very sensitive information”. Photo: Reuters/B. Mathur/Files Read the first part of this investigation here. New Delhi: Months after India’s transport ministry allowed a New Delhi-based company access to data on Indian vehicle ownership and registration, the company went on to sign a separate and sensitive data sharing agreement with a German company, according to government d...