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05 October 2015 • 5-minute read

FOSS news – September 2015

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by sflc_admin | October 5, 2015 Mishi Choudhary on FOSS and the sharing economyMishi Choudhary says that Free and open source software (FOSS) is a technical and political movement that will make it possible that every brain on...

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30 September 2015 • 5-minute read

Cyber Extortion: Ransom and Cyberspace

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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,...

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24 September 2015 • 3-minute read

The National Draft Encryption Policy 1.0

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The National Draft Encryption Policy which was released for public comment, and subsequently withdrawn by the Union Government within a span of three days after its release, has been a subject of much discourse.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...

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19 September 2015 • 5-minute read

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – III (Post Script: Gujarat High Court Verdict)

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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...

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15 September 2015 • 1-minute read

Joint letter to the PMO expressing concerns over the “Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)”

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by sflc_admin | September 15, 2015SFLC.in, along with several civil society organizations and citizens, penned a joint letter to the Prime Minister of India on September 15, 2015 expressing concerns over the “Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related...

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10 September 2015 • 0-minute read

Open for Comments: WSIS+10 Review Process Non-paper

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The WSIS+10 non-paper is finally officially available here. The key themes are addressed under the following categories:ICT for DevelopmentHuman RightsInternet GovernanceCyberspaceThe comments that have been distilled to produce this non-paper include inputs from around 20 governments and 26 civil society...

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04 September 2015 • 1-minute read

FOSS news – August 2015

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by sflc_admin | September 4, 2015Croatian policy encourages open source adoptionEarlier this year, Croatian political party Sustainable Development of Croatia (ORaH) published a new policy that encourages the government to pursue open source solutions, addresses the dangers of vendor...

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01 September 2015 • 8-minute read

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – II (Gujarat & Constitutional Questions)

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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...

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31 August 2015 • 3-minute read

How the news media is accessing Indrani Mukherjea’s entire virtual life.. ^Featured

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by sflc_admin | August 31, 2015Indrani Mukherjea is on the cover page of every news website today, in pictures where she is hugging her husband, Peter Mukherjea, or posing solo, or in a selfie. Her entire virtual life is...

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29 August 2015 • 6-minute read

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – I (Of Kill Switches and Legal Vacuums) ^Featured

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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...

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28 August 2015 • 0-minute read

Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign-up to use Facebook? ^Featured

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Click here to find out here in this analysis of Facebook's T&Cs [documentcloud http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2301472-via-sflc-do-you-know-what-youre-agreeing-to-when.html Do you know what you're agreeing to when you sign up to Facebook?] First published here. Original author: sflc_admin...

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20 August 2015 • 2-minute read

US-India Cyber Dialogue 2015

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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...

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19 August 2015 • 0-minute read

Solution to online privacy issues soon

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by sflc_admin | August 19, 2015New Version of FreedomBox Offers private, secure, Fault-Tolerant Internet AccessAt a time when privacy in internet is becoming a concern world over, free software pioneer, futurist and activist Prof Eben Moglen says a ...

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14 August 2015 • 8-minute read

ONLINE HARASSMENT AND LEGAL REMEDIES

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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...

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14 August 2015 • 0-minute read

Lecture on “Software and the law”

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by sflc_admin | August 14, 2015You want to build a business and Software Law for you, seems to be about avoiding danger.Could the law of software really be a subject that could make you save money instead of cost you...

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14 August 2015 • 1-minute read

WHOIS: The Current Landscape and a Privacy Analysis

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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...

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14 August 2015 • 10-minute read

Information Gatekeepers and Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution

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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...

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11 August 2015 • 0-minute read

Second Asian Legal Network Round-table

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by sflc_admin | August 11, 2015 SFLC.IN in association with Open Invention Network is organizing the Second Asian Legal Network round-table at the Oberoi Hotel, Bangalore on Wednesday, 12th August 2015 from 12:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The...

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11 August 2015 • 1-minute read

Aadhar: Constitution bench to consider the right to privacy question

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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...

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10 August 2015 • 5-minute read

We are not a totalitarian state and cannot be asked to moral police: AG tells the SC in the Porn Petition ^Featured

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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...

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FOSS news – September 2015

Cyber Extortion: Ransom and Cyberspace

The National Draft Encryption Policy 1.0

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – III (Post Script: Gujarat High Court Verdict)

Joint letter to the PMO expressing concerns over the “Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)”

Open for Comments: WSIS+10 Review Process Non-paper

FOSS news – August 2015

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – II (Gujarat & Constitutional Questions)

How the news media is accessing Indrani Mukherjea’s entire virtual life.. ^Featured

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – I (Of Kill Switches and Legal Vacuums) ^Featured

Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign-up to use Facebook? ^Featured

US-India Cyber Dialogue 2015

Solution to online privacy issues soon

ONLINE HARASSMENT AND LEGAL REMEDIES

Lecture on “Software and the law”

WHOIS: The Current Landscape and a Privacy Analysis

Information Gatekeepers and Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution

Second Asian Legal Network Round-table

Aadhar: Constitution bench to consider the right to privacy question

We are not a totalitarian state and cannot be asked to moral police: AG tells the SC in the Porn Petition ^Featured

Your Interests & Preferences

I am a...

Website Look & Feel

Experts & Views

How the news media is accessing Indrani Mukherjea’s entire virtual life.. Featured

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – I (Of Kill Switches and Legal Vacuums) Featured

Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign-up to use Facebook? Featured

We are not a totalitarian state and cannot be asked to moral police: AG tells the SC in the Porn Petition Featured

How the news media is accessing Indrani Mukherjea’s entire virtual life.. ^Featured

The Anatomy of Internet Shutdowns – I (Of Kill Switches and Legal Vacuums) ^Featured

Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign-up to use Facebook? ^Featured

We are not a totalitarian state and cannot be asked to moral police: AG tells the SC in the Porn Petition ^Featured