by sflc_admin | December 3, 2016 The Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a multi-stakeholder public policy dialogue initiated by the United Nations Secretary-General, has been an annual affair for more than a decade. The 11th IGF is set to take place from 6th to 9th December at Guadalajara, Mexico with...
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by sflc_admin | December 2, 2016 Over the past few years, the number of instances in which Internet access was blocked for entire regions by the Indian Government has been steadily climbing. These “Internet shutdowns” are usually instituted as responses to conflict situations i.e. to prevent rumor-d...
by sflc_admin | December 1, 2016 Our Counsel, Prasanth Sugathan was part of a panel on privacy at the Digital Citizen Summit organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) in Bangalore on 11th November, 2016. This session focused on digital privacy and other related concepts that have been brough...
by sflc_admin | November 24, 2016 We at SFLC.in have grown increasingly concerned of late by the appreciable spike in instances of online harassment across platforms. Whereas online speech platforms like social media websites, blogs, and discussion forums set the stage for unprecedented levels of pu...
by sflc_admin | November 19, 2016 SFLC.in is pleased to announce the release our report titled “Online Harassment: A Form of Censorship” on November 22, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Lecture Hall 1, India International Centre (Annexe), New Delhi , at an event we are organizing in association with ...
by sflc_admin | November 17, 2016 It is our pleasure to invite you to an event hosted by Mozilla and SFLC.in on November 18, 2016 from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM at The Lalit, New Delhi , where we will explore the challenges and solutions of bringing all people online through a panel discussion. We have gat...
by sflc_admin | November 10, 2016 2014 : SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) is announced by the Ministry of Human Rights Development (MHRD), as a national platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for the country in 2014 under its National Mission on Education thr...
by sflc_admin | November 10, 2016 The Ministry of Human Rights Development (MHRD) commenced the development of a national platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for the country in 2014 under its National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology (NME-ICT). Th...
by sflc_admin | November 9, 2016 Mishi Choudhary, in an interview with Business Standard, published on 3rd October, 2016 talks about the lack of privacy, data protection and the impediment it causes thereto in light of the government’s ambitious Digital India initiative, and the recent case in the D...
by sflc_admin | November 9, 2016 The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye, is conducting a study on Freedom of Expression in Telecommunications and Internet Access as part of his multi-year study on freedom of expression ...
by sflc_admin | November 2, 2016 In 2014, the Ministry of Human Rights Development (MHRD) announced the development of SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), a national MOOC platform. Taking after the globally acclaimed MOOCs platforms such as edX and Coursera that run on o...
by sflc_admin | October 7, 2016 SFLC.in, in collaboration with iSPIRT (Indian Software Product Industry Round Table) organized a discussion on September 5, 2016 at the India International Centre, New Delhi, where we aimed to delve deeper into the technological components of the Aadhaar project and t...
by sflc_admin | October 7, 2016 On 6th September, 2016, SFLC.in organized the second in a series of consultations at the India International Centre, New Delhi on the various facets of hateful and harassing speech online. Both the roundtables had representation from industry, civil society, and media...
by sflc_admin | September 23, 2016 CC BY-SA 3.0 NY WhatsApp updated its privacy policy on August 25, 2016 for the first time since its acquisition by Facebook in October 2015. As per the updated policy, WhatsApp will now share limited user information including name/phone number with Facebook so as ...
by sflc_admin | September 9, 2016 Introduction Following our initial comments on the Consultation Paper on Proliferation of Broadband through Public Wi-Fi Networks, below are our set of counter comments that serve as responses to the comments made by Telecom Service Providers (hereinafter referred t...
by sflc_admin | September 8, 2016 A PDF version of the following comments can be accessed here Introduction In India, as per the subscription data 1 released by TRAI wireless subscriptions constitute 88 % of broadband connections. Thus, the Internet revolution in India is largely fueled by mobile de...
by sflc_admin | September 2, 2016 Aadhaar operates with the collection, sharing, and storage of biometric as well as demographic information of the individuals. With its mass enrollment, it is being planned and aimed as a means for enabling a larger digital ecosystem to make the shift to a data cent...
by sflc_admin | September 1, 2016 SFLC.in is organizing the second in a series of consultations on hateful and harassing speech online on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 from 02:30 to 04:30 PM at Conference Room-1, India International Centre, New Delhi. This consultation will bring together representativ...
by sflc_admin | August 17, 2016 The journey of the Aadhaar scheme can be traced back from its inception in 2006, following which it has undergone scrutiny by way of two Bills that aimed to provide it statutory backing, one Parliamentary S tanding C ommittee evaluation, and multiple challenges in the...
by sflc_admin | August 3, 2016 SFLC.in organized a roundtable discussion on 28th July, 2016 in New Delhi to initiate a focused and collaborative dialogue around the increasingly important issues of online harassment and hate speech. This roundtable was intended as the first in a series of discussion...