Our Response to the SC’s Technical Committee on Pegasus #SaveOurPrivacy
Read our response to queries sent by the Technical Committee set up by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for investigating the use of the Pegasus spyware in India.
Read our response to queries sent by the Technical Committee set up by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for investigating the use of the Pegasus spyware in India.
We respond to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Draft Data Access Policy. The policy raises serious privacy concerns due to its perverse economic incentives on data sharing.
To assist challenges to IT Rules, we reached out to Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) - a research centre at the Oxford University, requesting research on laws in other countries on social media platforms, digital news media and OTT platforms. OPBP has published their research report in December 2021.
IFF submitted comments in the ongoing consultation for India Digital Ecosystem Architecture (InDEA) 2.0 released by the MeitY in January 2022. Our core approach is towards ensuring that the rollout of the architecture happens in a manner that safeguards the rights of the user.
We wrote to the Department of Telecommunications warning them about the privacy implications of the extension of the retention period for call records and internet usage data to two years through recent amendments.