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Shaoni Das
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 Violates Various Constitutional Mandates
20 May 2022
Supreme Court’s judgment in Jacob Puliyel v Union of India on May 2 further brings the constitutional validity of the Act under a cloud.
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…
Sabah Gurmat
MeitY’s Direction to VPN Companies to Share User Data or Face Jail Invites Concern Over Privacy
06 May 2022
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) on April 28 issued directions to Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider companies to collect and share user data including IP…
Aastha Bhandari
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill Flies in the Face of Legal Precedents
13 Apr 2022
Indian legislators must learn from the mistakes of other countries like the United Kingdom and the United States of America that have well established regulation and DNA databases.
V. Venkatesan
‘Resham Fails Both the Test of Reasoning as well as the Test of Empathy’, says Author and Scholar, Arvind Narrain
24 Mar 2022
ARVIND Narrain is the well-known author of the recent book, ‘India’s Undeclared
Associated Press
From Spying to Fines, Omicron Spells Return of Unpopular, ‘Unfair’ Restrictions
02 Dec 2021
In Israel, potential carriers of the new omicron variant could be tracked by the nation's formidable spy agency in seeming defiance of a Supreme Court ruling from the last go-round.
Partha S. Ghosh
Indian Democracy and the Pegasus Blues
16 Aug 2021
The Pegasus controversy is one of many deeper malaises afflicting India, which begin with the tendency to accept encroachments into democratic rights as normal.
Harinder Mishra/PTI
Pegasus Scandal: Top Israeli Defence Committee to Convene 'Closed' Session on Use of Offensive Cyberarms
04 Aug 2021
The alleged use of the Pegasus software to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, politicians and others in a number of countries, including India, triggered concerns over issues relating to…
PTI
Pegasus Spyware: BJP MPs Refuse to Mark Presence, IT Parl Panel Suspended over Lack of Quorum
28 Jul 2021
Tharoor on Tuesday said the parliamentary panel on IT will question government officials on allegations relating to suspected phone tapping of politicians, journalists and others using Pegasus…
Pragya Singh
Pegasus Revelations Undermine Soft Power of India
21 Jul 2021
A country that defines itself as the biggest democracy cannot afford to ignore the stalking of its citizens.