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Comments and recommendations to the Guidelines for “Influencer Advertising on Digital Media”
— by Torsha Sarkar and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Apr 05, 2021 09:58 AMIn February, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) had issued draft rules for regulation of digital influencers, with an aim to "understand the peculiarities of [online] advertisements and the way consumers view them", as well as to ensure that: "consumers must be able to distinguish when something is being promoted with an intention to influence their opinion or behaviour for an immediate or eventual commercial gain". In lieu of this, we presented our responses.
Recommendations for the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-Win) platform
— by Pallavi Bedi — last modified Mar 25, 2021 01:14 PMThe Competition Law Case Against Whatsapp’s 2021 Privacy Policy Alteration
— by Aman Nair and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Mar 24, 2021 04:12 PMHaving examined the privacy implications of Whatsapp's changes to its privacy policy in 2021, this issue brief is the second output in our series examining the effects of those changes. This brief examines the changes in the context of data sharing between Whatsapp and Facebook as being an anticompetitive action in violation of the Indian Competition Act, 2002.
Regulating Sexist Online Harassment: A Model of Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship
— by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 11, 2021 04:14 AMAmber Sinha wrote a paper on regulating sexist online harassment, and how online harassment serves as a form of censorship, for the “Recognize, Resist, Remedy: Addressing Gender-Based Hate Speech in the Online Public Sphere” project, a collaborative project between IT for Change, India and InternetLab, Brazil.
New intermediary guidelines: The good and the bad
— by Torsha Sarkar — last modified Mar 15, 2021 01:52 PMIn pursuance of the government releasing the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, this blogpost offers a quick rundown of some of the changes brought about the Rules, and how they line up with existing principles of best practices in content moderation, among others.
CIS comments on the Revised Non Personal Governance Framework Report
— by Pallavi Bedi, Anubha Sinha and Aman Nair — last modified Mar 22, 2021 05:39 AMCIS Comments on the National Strategy on Blockchain
— by Vipul Kharbanda & Aman Nair — last modified Mar 22, 2021 05:34 AMNotes From a Foreign Field: The European Court of Human Rights on Russia’s Website Blocking
— by Gurshabad Grover — last modified Feb 13, 2021 08:42 AMThis blogpost summarises the human rights principles applied by the Court to website blocking, and discusses how they can be instructive to petitions in the Delhi High Court that challenge arbitrary censorship in India.
The Government needs to make sure our emails don't destroy the environment
— by Aman Nair — last modified Jan 25, 2021 02:17 PMThe Government's data centre policy must be more reflective of energy requirements and sustainable practices to effectively ensure that India's growing digital user base doesn't hurt the environment.
The Boss Will See You Now - The Growth of Workplace Surveillance in India, is Data Protection Legislation the Answer?
— by Shweta Mohandas and Deepika Nandagudi Srinivasa — last modified Jan 25, 2021 12:37 PMThe use of pervasive technologies to monitor employees was picking up pace in India, the pandemic accelerated it. The pandemic has changed the way we work either through permanent work from home mandates for those who can work remotely, to heightened social distancing norms for office goers.
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