Category: Legal

A snooping State can go totalitarian unless there are strict guidelines on the process and purpose of data gathering So it is now official: the

Sixteen, including Shah, were discharged from the case even before the trial started. (PTI File Photo) The acquittal of all the 22 accused persons in the 2005

Challenging the constitutionality and legality of the Centres order empowering central agencies and the Delhi Police to snoop on all computers, a public interest litigation

A report in Times of India indicates that the government aims to introduce a nuanced data localisation requirement in its proposed Data Protection Bill. “Sensitive”

The Union home ministry order last week that authorised ten intelligence, tax and law enforcement agencies to “intercept, monitor and decrypt any information generated, transmitted,

The controversial area has marked a prolonged tug-of-war between the Centre and WhatsApp, following incidents of mob-violence incited by rumours floating on the popular messaging

Giving intelligence agencies sweeping powers without a system of oversight is a bad idea The Centre’s decision to authorise 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor

पाळतीचे राजकारण गुप्तचर विभागासह देशातील दहा तपास यंत्रणांना खासगी संगणक आणि मोबाइल फोन यांवरील माहिती तपासण्याचा; तसेच पाळत ठेवण्याचा अधिकार देण्याबाबत मोदी सरकारने काढलेल्या आदेशावर

The Union home ministry has authorised 10 central agencies involved in security and intelligence to intercept, monitor and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received, or

Technology and digital privacy experts agree the data interception and decryption order is an extension of existing rules but say the worry is that citizens will now fear government

The new law will revolutionise consumer rights by giving consumers a lot more power than what they have. A three-decade-old law is being changed to

The notification says the subscriber or service provider or any person in charge of the computer resource will have to extend all facilities and technical

Accusing the Congress party of running an “ill- informed” campaign against the government on intercepting computer data, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Friday said there is “no general snooping order”

The Department Of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) will put the draft e-commerce policy up for broad based consultation and seek comments for a period of ten

Online retailers and marketplaces will soon be liable for fraudulent sales and defective products sold on their platforms as ecommerce is set to be regulated under

Free Kishorechandra, thicken your skin If Manipur journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem’s arrest and month-long incarceration were not scandalous, it would have been ridiculous. Charging him under

Can’t want e-tail FDI and then want to change rules With the general elections around the corner, the government is once again making the right

The government’s empowerment of 10 agencies to carry out electronic snooping on citizens at will is anti-democratic and should be withdrawn. The government’s defence that