2023-11-11
“पिक्चर अभी बाकी है दोस्त” On the same day the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has also announced the Digital Advertisement Policy, 2023. As per the PIB release below the Central Bureau of Communication or the CBC is being empowered to, “to undertake campaigns in the...
Reuters
India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform
Aditya Kalra / Reuters :
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has finally made it clear it aims to regulate OTT providers just like it has regulated Cable and Television. A historic opportunity at liberalisation is being squandered and a paternalistic mechanism of censorship and government...
Reuters
India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform
Aditya Kalra / Reuters :
2023-06-03
“In addition to BellTroX and CyberRoot, there are about ten to fifteen other Indian companies doing this,” he told me. “We have seen close to a hundred and twenty thousand victims over the past ten years, so it really is an industry.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services
David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker :
2023-03-31
A natural outcome from the absence of any institutional accountability. There will be continue to be another vendor and another Pegasus. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M
Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world Tweets: @yusufdfi , @advait_px , @apar1984 , @meenakandasamy , @langam...
2022-08-24
Twitter and the Government of India must release public statements and address these concerning allegations that Twitter hired an agent at the behest of the Indian government and gave the person unfiltered access to user data.
Reuters
Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint alleges India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents, who could have accessed sensitive user data due to weak security
😱 El antiguo jefe de seguridad de Twitter tira de la manta. Ians / Business Standard : Twitter trashes ex-worker's claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’ Lily Hay Newman /...
Twitter and the Government of India must release public statements and address these concerning allegations that Twitter hired an agent at the behest of the Indian government and gave the person unfiltered access to user data.
Washington Post
A profile of Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow
From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’
2022-02-02
Ministry of Information Broadcasting does not have any clear regulatory powers to effect content takedowns but asks platforms to censor proactively in greater numbers. Google reportedly proposed for take down decisions not to be made public. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: Indian officials have held tense and heated discussions with Meta, Google, Twitter, ShareChat, and Koo over proactively removing “fake news”
Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described …
Note the following: 1) Parts of the IT Rules, 2021 are stayed as per decisions by 3 High Courts. 2) IT rules provide powers of blocking by MIB. However, only to publishers, not intermediaries/platforms. 3) Takedown orders are not made public. Only press releases follow.
Reuters
Sources: Indian officials have held tense and heated discussions with Meta, Google, Twitter, ShareChat, and Koo over proactively removing “fake news”
Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described …
Put quite simply. The Indian Government wants social media companies to censor by itself, so they do not have to send lawful requests. This gets bad press globally. Here, Google suggests, there is no need to make these decisions public, let us work privately to fix it. Amazing.
Reuters
Sources: Indian officials have held tense and heated discussions with Meta, Google, Twitter, ShareChat, and Koo over proactively removing “fake news”
Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described …
2022-02-01
“Funding think-tanks is a great way to influence experts and help shape the political conversation in a way that helps you.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Analysis: Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple donated at least $1.2M to four US foreign policy think tanks in 2019-2020, up from $625,000 in 2017-18
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple battle Washington's move towards stricter regulation using anti-China lobbying
2020-09-26
An oversight board over Facebook's “Supreme Court”? https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
About 25 academics, journalists, others say they've formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions
2020-08-20
This @CPJAsia report is alarming. Use of criminal laws on a journalist for a comment on his Facebook post is an issue of press freedom. https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Committee to Protect Journalists
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, filed a criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari for sharing a WSJ article critical of Das on Facebook
Committee to Protect Journalists :