Project Panoptic: Right to Information Updates from Delhi Police, Kolkata Police and Telangana State Technology Services

Replies to RTI requests filed with the Delhi Police, the Kolkata Police and the Telangana State Technology Services shed light on how these public authorities are using their FRT systems.

December 1, 2020 · 3 min · Anushka Jain

IFF's Project Panoptic is (almost) here

The launch of the Project is imminent. Read more about the project here.

November 6, 2020 · 4 min · Anushka Jain

Statement: One year of inaction, delay and evasion on the NSO-Pegasus hack #SaveOurPrivacy

Despite multiple government and parliamentary bodies examining the Pegasus hack, a whole year has passed and we still do not know who was responsible for this egregious violation of the privacy of human rights defenders in the country.

November 2, 2020 · 5 min · Devdutta Mukhopadhyay

Watch the Watchmen Series Part 5 : The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

In the fifth part of our “Watch the Watchmen” series, we take a closer look at PDP Bill which is likely to be tabled in next year’s Budget Session.

October 28, 2020 · 8 min · Anushka Jain

Watch the Watchmen Series Part 4 : The National Automated Facial Recognition System

In the fourth part of our “Watch the Watchmen” series which aims to develop and use a national database of photographs which is to be used in conjunction with a facial recognition technology system by Central and State security agencies to swiftly identify criminals.

October 7, 2020 · 11 min · Anushka Jain