2025-01-05
.@GoI_MeitY has released the long awaited DPDP Rules 16 & a half months after the DPDP Act, 2024 was enacted. We are dismayed that after such a long wait the Rules have failed to rise to the occasion & meet our expectations. 🧵1/9 https://internetfreedom.in/...
The Hindu
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
Draft of rules proposed … Debanish Achom / NDTV : Parents' Consent Must For Children's Social Media Accounts: Draft Data Rules Mathrubhumi English : Draft rules for digital privacy...
.@GoI_MeitY has released the long awaited DPDP Rules 16 & a half months after the DPDP Act, 2024 was enacted. We are dismayed that after such a long wait the Rules have failed to rise to the occasion & meet our expectations. 🧵1/9 https://internetfreedom.in/...
MEDIANAMA
A look at India's draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18
The newly released draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025 say that online platforms must check the age …
2025-01-04
.@GoI_MeitY has released the long awaited DPDP Rules 16 & a half months after the DPDP Act, 2024 was enacted. We are dismayed that after such a long wait the Rules have failed to rise to the occasion & meet our expectations. 🧵1/9 https://internetfreedom.in/...
The Hindu
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, aimed at enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, lay out the tentative terms of enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was passed in Parliament in 2023
2024-05-18
📊 @accessnow's #KeepItOn report on internet shutdowns in 2023 indicates worsening conditions for internet shutdowns and human rights globally. We have summarised the implications of the report for India below 👇 1/9 https://www.accessnow.org/...
TIME
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders …
2023-12-21
@signalapp ... More privacy? Uh, no. More penalties instead 👎 Falling short on ensuring user privacy, the bill introduces privacy-invading provisions, with potential consequences for end-to-end encryption & user anonymity, failure to comply with which will lead to imposition of hefty fines....
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
For starters, the definitional ambiguity in the bill leaves us worried about its application to internet services (such as @signalapp, @Skype, @gmail, & @WhatsApp), impacting fundamental rights to privacy, freedom of expression, & the right to receive information. 3/n
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
@signalapp ... ⏪ a quick rewind The Telecom Bill of 2022 was released for public consultation on September 21, 2022. Interestingly, @DoT_India refused to disclose comments received on the Telecom Bill of 2022. The absence of such disclosures make the reasoning/inspiration behind the changes...
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
🚨🚨 The Telecom Bill 2023, has been passed in Lok Sabha, despite suspension of approx 100 opposition MPs in the LS. 👇 A repackaged version of the colonial past, the Bill tends to retain draconian surveillance & internet suspension powers. 1/n 👇👇 https://internetfreedom.in/...
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
Historically, laws governing telecom services are (mis)used to surveil devices & carry out internet suspensions. 🙅♀️🙅♀️ Simply replicating provisions from the 1885 law, the Telecom Bill of 2023 may also expand surveillance & suspension powers to online communication services,...
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
@signalapp ... 🤦 Far, far from being “anti-colonial,” the bill misses an opportunity for reform. We're in 2023, but we're still hanging on to our 1885 draconian legacy bill that makes no sense rights-centric. 8/9
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
@signalapp ... Ctrl + more Ctrl. 🛂🛂 The bill grants the Union govt broad powers to suspend, intercept, detain telecommunication services. New provisions like Clause 43 confer quasi-judicial powers for search & seizure of digital devices. 7/9
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
@signalapp ... The bill was passed without an amendment explicitly excluding internet services from its ambit, despite several MPs seeking clarification from the Union Minister around this. 4/9
MediaNama
India's lower house of parliament passes the 2023 Telecommunication Bill, despite a lack of clarity on whether online services will fall under the bill's scope
Kamya Pandey / MediaNama :
Historically, laws governing telecom services are (mis)used to surveil devices & carry out internet suspensions. 🙅♀️🙅♀️ Simply replicating provisions from the 1885 law, the Telecom Bill of 2023 may also expand surveillance & suspension powers to online communication services,...
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
@signalapp ... 🤦 Far, far from being “anti-colonial,” the bill misses an opportunity for reform. We're in 2023, but we're still hanging on to our 1885 draconian legacy bill that makes no sense rights-centric. 8/9
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
@signalapp ... Ctrl + more Ctrl. 🛂🛂 The bill grants the Union govt broad powers to suspend, intercept, detain telecommunication services. New provisions like Clause 43 confer quasi-judicial powers for search & seizure of digital devices. 7/9
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
@signalapp ... The bill was passed without an amendment explicitly excluding internet services from its ambit, despite several MPs seeking clarification from the Union Minister around this. 4/9
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
@signalapp ... More privacy? Uh, no. More penalties instead 👎 Falling short on ensuring user privacy, the bill introduces privacy-invading provisions, with potential consequences for end-to-end encryption & user anonymity, failure to comply with which will lead to imposition of hefty fines....
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
For starters, the definitional ambiguity in the bill leaves us worried about its application to internet services (such as @signalapp, @Skype, @gmail, & @WhatsApp), impacting fundamental rights to privacy, freedom of expression, & the right to receive information. 3/n
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
@signalapp ... ⏪ a quick rewind The Telecom Bill of 2022 was released for public consultation on September 21, 2022. Interestingly, @DoT_India refused to disclose comments received on the Telecom Bill of 2022. The absence of such disclosures make the reasoning/inspiration behind the changes...
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
🚨🚨 The Telecom Bill 2023, has been passed in Lok Sabha, despite suspension of approx 100 opposition MPs in the LS. 👇 A repackaged version of the colonial past, the Bill tends to retain draconian surveillance & internet suspension powers. 1/n 👇👇 https://internetfreedom.in/...
Moneycontrol
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date”
Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …