Nine months after the Supreme Court’s decision on internet shutdowns in the matter of Anuradha Bhasin v Union of India, there is still no compliance with the Court’s decision.
We wrote to Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, the Honourable Member of Parliament for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands stating our concerns and urging him to escalate the matter with PMO and MeitY.
In this blogpost, we collate and analyze our findings on the Delhi Police’s use of facial recognition technology. Use of facial recognition without having a legal framework in place to regulate it raises the threat of mass surveillance.
In this post, we, through our statement, indicate areas of concerns around the legality of the process and also indicate how, by filing Right to Information requests, we are hoping for greater public disclosure.
IFF consistently uses the Right to Information Act to demand transparency and accountability from government authorities. We have put together some of the instances where we have successfully used the RTI Act to extract information.