Google (including YouTube), Facebook, Instagram (now Meta), ShareChat, Snap, Twitter and WhatsApp have released their reports under Rule 4(1)(d) of the IT Rules 2021 for the month of Dec ‘21. The latest of these was published by Meta and was made available in late Jan ‘22. We’ve analysed them.

In this post, we have presented a non-opinionated summary of MeitY’s InDEA 2.0 paper, focussing on the data-rights-centric parts of the document. Through this summary, we hope to better inform public awareness and increase public participation on the issue.

In December 2021, NIXI published an undated notice stating that if any entity wants to register for more than two [dot]in domains, they’ll have to seek written permission from the NIXI CEO. In our RTI request, NIXI responded stating that the notice was issued for “national security”.

IFF responded to TRAI’s consultation paper which sought the establishment of Data Centres, Content Delivery Networks, and Interconnect Exchanges. We submitted our comments as obvious issues of innovation that serve users, net neutrality and data protection emerge for consideration.

The submission to United Nations analyses the legal basis of internet shutdowns in India, the instances of disruptions, their impact on human rights and the efforts by the Indian Government to improve internet connectivity.