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Online Censorship: Perspectives From Content Creators and Comparative Law on Section 69A of the Information Technology Act
— by Divyansha Sehgal, Gurshabad Grover — last modified Aug 26, 2024 07:05 AMThis study presents a comparative analysis of Indian censorship law and experiences of people who have had their online content censored.
Draft Circular on Digital Lending – Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders
— by Garima Agrawal — last modified Jul 03, 2024 04:40 PMCIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments on the “Draft Circular on Digital Lending: Transparency in Aggregation of Loan Products from Multiple Lenders” to the Reserve Bank of India. We welcome the opportunity provided to comment on the guidelines, and we hope that the final guidelines will consider the interests of all the stakeholders to ensure that it protects the privacy and digital rights of all consumers, including marginalised and vulnerable users, while encouraging innovation and improved service delivery in the fintech ecosystem. Our comments look at two concerns addressed by the draft guidelines, i.e. reducing information asymmetry and market fairness. In addition to this we share comments around a third concern that requires additional scrutiny, i.e. data privacy and security.
Legal Advocacy Manual
— by Radhika, Shruti Trikanad and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Jul 01, 2024 08:16 AMThe Legal Advocacy Manual summarizes the key legal and constitutional questions and jurisprudence related to laws that affect the right to freedom of expression and privacy online, including internet shutdowns, content takedown, online surveillance and device seizure.
A Guide to Navigating Your Digital Rights
— by Anamika Kundu, Radhika, Shruti Trikanad, Torsha Sarkar — last modified Jul 01, 2024 08:18 AMComments to the Draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024
— by Abhineet Nayyar, Isha Suri, and Pallavi Bedi (in alphabetical order) — last modified Jun 11, 2024 10:13 AMThis submission is a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society India (CIS) to the draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024, published by the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), (hereafter “draft DCB” or “draft Bill”).
Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
— by Amrita Sengupta and Yesha Tshering Paul — last modified Apr 09, 2024 12:13 AMOn 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Apr 04, 2024 02:20 PMWe analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a role in intimate partner violence. We also evaluate the protection provided by antivirus tools in detecting such stalkerware apps and describe how we collected technical evidence to help improve the detection of these apps.
Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU
— by Swati Punia, Srishti Joshi, Siddharth Peter De Souza, Linnet Taylor, Jhalak M. Kakkar, Isha Suri, Arindrajit Basu, and Anushka Mittal — last modified Feb 20, 2024 12:30 AMThis policy paper is the result of a workshop organised jointly by the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Netherlands, the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi, India and the Centre for Internet & Society, India in January, 2023. The workshop brought together a number of academics, researchers, and industry representatives in Delhi to discuss a range of issues at the core of data governance theory and practice.
Information Disorders and their Regulation
— by Torsha Sarkar, Shruti Trikanad, and Anoushka Soni — last modified Jan 31, 2024 02:20 PMThe Indian media and digital sphere, perhaps a crude reflection of the socio-economic realities of the Indian political landscape, presents a unique and challenging setting for studying information disorders.
DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Jan 25, 2024 11:19 AMDocument Actions
