अगस्त और सितंबर के महीनों में सोशल मीडिया के माध्यम से हमने आपके सामने कोविड 19 के दौरान की जाने वाली तकनीकी निगरानी के अनुभवों को 8 विगनेट्स के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया। अब हम आपके लिए हमारी नई पत्रिका लेकर आए हैं, जो एक ही स्थान पर सभी विगनेट्स को एक साथ जोड़ती है। भारत में कोविड‑19 के दौरान हाश्याकृत समुदायों पर निगरानी के अनुभवों के कई अलग-अलग पहलुओं को बेहतर ढंग से समझने के लिए, नीचे दी गए पत्रिका को पढ़ें! More
Throughout the months of August and September, we brought to you, through social media, eight accounts of people’s experiences of tech surveillance during COVID-19, in the form of vignettes. Now we present you our Zine, which bundles all the vignettes together in one place. To better understand the many different facets of the lived experiences of surveillance during COVID19 of people at the margins in India, read the Zine below! More
This is the third and last video of the three-episode series “Deep impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology & marginalised dentities”, developed in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya, the country’s only rural digital news network, which reports on issues that are far from the attention of national and regional media. More
This is the second episode of the three-episode series “Deep impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology & marginalised dentities”, developed in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya, the country’s only rural digital news network, which reports on issues that are far from the attention of national and regional media. More
This is the first episode of a three-episode series “Deep impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology & marginalised dentities”, developed in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya, the country’s only rural digital news network, which reports on issues that are far from the attention of national and regional media. More
On 30 April, the Internet Democracy Project along with 44 organisations and over 100 individuals endorsed the statement against the mandatory use of the Aarogya Setu mobile application by employees of various public and private offices all over India. The Internet Freedom Foundation sent this joint representation to various Government officials, including the Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, and Home Minister, Mr. Amit Shah. The Aarogya Setu app infringes the right to privacy and personal liberty, and is unbecoming of a democratic country. We stand in solidarity with the Internet Freedom Foundation and other rights based groups and Individuals to call it out. The full text of the letter can be found on the IFF website as well as below. More
We are thrilled to share a video produced by the Data Governance Networked, titled, “Data is an extension of our body”, which draws on our research work on bodies and data governance. In data governance policies in India, as elsehwere, data is considered a resource that can be exploited by government and private players alike. But in reality, this data is so much entangled with the body that generates it or that it targets that the line between virtual bodies and physical bodies becomes irrelevant. In other words, our research shows, data is embodied and any harm manifested from this data is as real and tangible as any physical harm. More
The Internet Democracy Project has provided extensive input in the joint letter written by SFLC to the Central and State Governments to protect individual privacy during COVID-19 Pandemic. The letter highlights excessive and unsupervised collection and usage of personal data of individuals for monitoring and surveillance that can cause irreversible harms to the privacy and bodily integrity of the individuals. The letter was signed by SFLC, the Internet Democracy Project and other non-profit organisations, civil society groups, lawyers, public policy professionals, social activists’ entrepreneurs and concerned citizens to flag the issues of individual privacy in the times of COVID-19 Pandemic. The full text of the letter can be found on the SFLC website as well as below. More