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Opinion pieces
- How a US law allows American intelligence agencies to spy on internet users across the world The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enables warrant-less surveilling of non-Americans. Gurshabad Grover, Anunay Kulshrestha / Scroll.in
- The Indian Telecommunication Bill Engenders Security and Privacy Risks The draft law threatens human rights and sanctions unchecked state surveillance. Anunay Kulshrestha, Gurshabad Grover / Lawfare
- How message tracing regulations subvert encryption About measures in India and Bangladesh that undermine communication privacy. Divyank Katira, Gurshabad Grover / Internet Policy Review
- Who handed over policing to a private firm? On 56 Secure, a private company policing public property in Bangalore. Gurshabad Grover / Deccan Herald
- India Needs a Digital Lawfare Strategy to Counter China India’s Constitution as a component of India’s strategic toolkit. Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover / The Diplomat
- Trump is attacking social media giants; what India should do differently On the legal position of content moderation in India Anna Liz Thomas, Gurshabad Grover / Scroll.in
- How India's privacy bill regulates social media platforms On the regulation of social media platforms in Personal Data Protection Bill Tanaya Rajwade, Gurshabad Grover / The Wire
- Content takedown and users’ rights On Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, which allows the government to order content takedowns in complete secrecy. Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover / The Leaflet (republished by CyberBRICS; Scroll.in; Kashmir Observer; Medianama)
- Internet shutdowns - its legal and commercial dimensions in Kashmir On the internet shutdown in Kashmir, the Supreme Court's decision in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India, and the subsequent 'whitelist' of websites. Gurshabad Grover / ETV Bharat: Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Odia and Gujarati
- The Pegasus moment The use of the NSO vulnerability provides an opportunity to revisit the legal framework governing state surveillance in India. Gurshabad Grover, Tanaya Rajwade / The Indian Express
- A judicial overreach into matters of regulation How the Madras High Court is trying to make policy in the 'traceability' (formerly on Aadhaar-social media linking) case. Gurshabad Grover / The Hindu
- Linking Aadhaar to Facebook, Twitter: Possible witch-hunt? A opinion contribution on the 'traceability' (formerly on Aadhaar-social media linking) case in the Madras High Court. Multiple authors / The Print
- The Huawei bogey India should advocate for privacy at the 3GPP and prove allegations against Huawei before restricting their operations. Gurshabad Grover / The Indian Express
- Why the TikTok ban is worrying The problematic interim decision of the Madras High Court that led to the ban on downloading TikTok in India. Gurshabad Grover / Hindustan Times
- To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT Act [rules] A critique of the law that allows the Indian government and ISPs to carry out web censorship without accountability. Gurshabad Grover / Hindustan Times
- India should reconsider its proposed regulation of online content An analysis of the draft intermediary guidelines published by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in December 2018. Gurshabad Grover / Hindustan Times
- Anti-trafficking Bill may lead to censorship A critique of provisions in the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 that may infringe on Indians' right to freedom of expression. Swaraj Barooah, Gurshabad Grover / Mint
- Freeing Media from Google and Facebook Advertisement-driven business models that free journalism from the adtech giants. Sunil Abraham, Gurshabad Grover / India Outbound
Law/tech blogposts
- The decentralised infrastructure of online censorship in Asia The legal and techincal architecture of censorship in India, Pakistan and Indonesia. Gurshabad Grover / Open Tech Fund
- How we're improving OONI data quality: Analysis of failed measurements On whether OONI 'failures' are indicative of censorship. Gurshabad Grover, Simone Basso / Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
- The Camel’s Back: Recursive to Authoritative DNS with Encryption On encrypting queries from recursive resolvers to authoratitive servers. Gurshabad Grover / Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries
- The European Court of Human Rights on Russia’s Website Blocking And their implications for petitions in India. Gurshabad Grover, Anna Liz Thomas / Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy
- Standardising an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol On end-to-end encryption in the EU and the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) working group at the IETF Gurshabad Grover / Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries
- Adapting to the reality of encrypted DNS deployment Developments at the IETF for the discovery of Encrypted DNS resolvers Gurshabad Grover / Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries
- Due diligence standards for intermediaries What 'due diligence' means in the intermediary liability regime in India. Gurshabad Grover, Anna Liz Thomas / Law and Other Things