In the last post we discussed the panoply of laws surrounding internet shutdowns in India and concluded that though there might be indirect regulatory connections to justify such shutdowns, they appear to be flimsy at best. In this post, we...

For the past four days, news reports have been flowing in about the shutdown of internet services in Gujarat. With the tense law and order situation prevalent over the Patirdar reservation protests, state government authorities have decided to block access...

Following India’s splash in the global internet governance scene with the statement made by the Hon’ble IT Minister at ICANN53, the recently held 4th United States – India Cyber Dialogue is yet another key event in India’s internet governance landscape.India and...

By Shrutanjaya BhardwajBackgroundThe information in this piece had originally been collected for an awareness session hosted by JaagoTeens for college students in DU, for which I had gone with CCG Fellow Aarti Bhavana. While preparing for the same, I had...

The CCG team recently wrote a memo on the privacy implications of the WHOIS database, which is available here.Document SummaryBackgroundThe WHOIS service is a public, unrestricted database on which anyone can find out the real world identity, business location and...

I have put a draft of my paper titled ‘Gatekeeper Liability and Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution on SSRN. You can read it here. It will eventually be published in the NUJS Law Review.Alternatively, this essay (written for a UPenn/ CIS/ ORF publication) based...

By Pushan Dwivedi and Joshita Pai, Research Fellows at the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University DelhiHighlights from the Court’s rulingThe Supreme Court bench constituting J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde and C. Nagappan has decided to refer the challenges...

The Kamlesh Vaswani matter that has asked the Court to direct the Government to block all pornography over the Internet and was used conveniently by the Government to order the disablement of over 850 website last week came up before the bench...

The PornBan debate: our archived pieces on the subject | Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi Follow Follow “Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi” First published here.Original author: Chinmayi...

By Shruntanjaya Bharadwaj, Intern at CCG and student of NLU DelhiDateSummaryLinks23 September 2013The Supreme Court issued an interim order saying that Aadhaar card is not mandatory. It observed that:“No person should suffer for not getting the Aadhaar card in spite...

The post originally appeared in The Hindu on 31st July 2015.“While opinions may vary about Aadhar, the government is expected to act in the best interests of the people.” Picture shows biometric particulars being collected in Tamil Nadu. Photo: K. AnanthanThe last ten...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla Pant is hearing a set of at least thirty petitions challenging the constitutional validity of criminal defamation (Sections 499 and 500 of IPC and section 199 of CrPC).The summary of hearings...

By Chinmayi Arun and Sarvjeet Singh The post originally appeared in The Hindu on 20th July 2015. New Ideas: “A change in India’s stand signals potential openness to consultative policy-making.” In picture, activists staging a protest in favour of net neutrality in New...