The 2nd Preparatory Meeting for the High Level Meeting of the WSIS+10 Review kicked off in New York today. A shortened first day in the morning session saw interventions from countries across the board. The statements on first day reflected the the starting positions of most governments on the Zero ...
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The WSIS+10 Review process is currently at its 2nd Preparatory Meeting Phase. India’s statement at the meeting captures it’s key concerns. India stated that the zero draft reflects the views of the members states and is a balanced document. However there are a few key aspects that need to be address...
The 5 judge bench this afternoon commenced with the Aadhaar hearing after reference from the Supreme Court on the issues of existence of privacy as a constitutional right and on clarifications of the interim order issued on 11th of August . The bench seemed determined to focus on the clarification i...
By Joshita Pai & Sarvjeet Singh The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was set up under the chairmanship of Mr. Nandan Nilekani in 2009 by an executive notification to generate and assign unique identification numbers to residents. After persistent protests asserting that a projec...
By Sarvjeet Singh & Joshita Pai The Supreme Court has referred the issues of Aadhar and the larger issue of the right to privacy to a constitutional bench. The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi has been tracking the case and is collecting various documents re...
The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of the Union Government and several other public organisations to stay the interim order passed on the 11th of August, 2015 in the Aadhar matter. The Court has declined the request for making Aadhar mandatory except for availing LPG and PDS services. It has re...
By Shalini S. The past week has seen news reports in the Indian media, proclaiming the rise of a new computer-related crime , “cyber extortion”. Cyber extortion is a term generally understood to refer to a category of cyber crimes, where stolen, sensitive and private data is withheld or threatened t...
The National Draft Encryption Policy which was released for public comment, and subsequently withdrawn by the Union Government within a span of three days after its release, has been a subject of much discourse. The clarification issued by the Ministry on 22nd early in the day, stated that mass prod...
Earlier in this blog I had written at length about the legal backdrop in which any mobile Internet shutdown may be grounded and the constitutional questions surrounding Gujarat’s repeat application of this strategy as a public disorder shield in the Patidar reservation agitation. Three days back, th...
The WSIS+10 non-paper is finally officially available here . The key themes are addressed under the following categories: ICT for Development Human Rights Internet Governance Cyberspace The comments that have been distilled to produce this non-paper include inputs from around 20 governments and 26 c...
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 shall discuss the current internet shutdown in Gujarat in p...
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 to internet for citizens in Gujarat. Howeve...
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 the United States have committed to...
By Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj Background The 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 reached out to all my friends and relatives...
The CCG team recently wrote a memo on the privacy implications of the WHOIS database, which is available here . Document Summary Background The WHOIS service is a public, unrestricted database on which anyone can find out the real world identity, business location and contact information (including ...
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 on the paper sets out my argu...
By Pushan Dwivedi and Joshita Pai, Research Fellows at the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi Highlights from the Court’s ruling The Supreme Court bench constituting J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde and C. Nagappan has decided to refer the challenges to the Aadhar program...
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 headed by the Chief Justice today. Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, th...
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By Shruntanjaya Bharadwaj, Intern at CCG and student of NLU Delhi Date Summary Links 23 September 2013 The 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 of the fact that some author...