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Sidra Javed
New CERT-In Directions Raise Grave Concerns for Data Privacy
12 May 2022
While some directions seem like the need of the hour (such as mandatorily reporting data breaches) and definitively aim at ensuring cyber security, others (such as collecting and storing personal…
The Leaflet
Does Twitter Have The Power to Remove Content and Block a User Merely on Complaints?
31 Mar 2022
Delhi High Court’s observations appear to blur the distinction between tolerable content and blasphemy.
Prabir Purkayastha
TikTok Ban and Trump’s Extortionist Policies
29 Aug 2020
China sees the US demand for opening their and others’ markets, while ordering ByteDance to sell TikTok, as another version of the Opium War. If TikTok owning the data of its users is dangerous to…
Peoples Dispatch
Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials
18 Jan 2020
Israeli company NSO exports the Pegasus spyware, which has been used by governments across the world against opposition activists and journalists, including in India.
Ola Bini
Letter to the President of Ecuador
27 May 2019
Political prisoner Ola Bini, who was arrested on April 11 in Quito, Ecuador and put into preventative detention, writes a letter to Ecuadorean president Lenín Moreno from prison.
Zoe PC/ Pato Marinera
Voices From Across the World Demand the Release of Ola Bini
18 Apr 2019
On April 16, a press conference was held in Quito, Ecuador about Ola Bini’s case with his parents and lawyer, in which they highlighted the procedural irregularities of the case and the violation of…
Peoples Dispatch
German Antitrust Body Orders Facebook to Stop Expansive Collection of Data
15 Feb 2019
The Bundeskartellamt noted that only two options for users are to either agree to the extensive and intrusive data collection, or not create an account with the social media giant. This kind of…
Peoples Dispatch
“Israel Completely Controls Palestinian ICT Sector, Violates Palestinians’ Digital Rights”
04 Feb 2019
A recent report by the 7amleh center chronicles the impact of Israel’s stranglehold over the ICT sector, which has affected Palestinians’ economic development, and led to massive surveillance of…