Privacy and surveillance
Under the larger issue of Data
Privacy and data protection have been the most popular responses – in law and regulation as well as in popular understanding – to issues of surveillance and dataveillance. In this section, we investigate the substance of these frameworks, their contours and limitations as well as their usefulness.
Posts & Publications
Deep Impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology and marginalised identities
An anniversary we are wary about
When our bodies become data, where does that leave us?
Thou shalt build NODEs in the air, but would that be fair? Our submission in response to the NODE White Paper
Call for Inputs: Surveillance and marginalised communities during COVID19
‘Best effort basis’: Is it indeed the best effort by the Government?
New Video: A feminist perspective on principles of consent in the age of embodied data – Draft paper presentation
When and where is Aarogya Setu mandatory? We’re keeping track
An exclusion tale: Aarogya Setu’s march from optional to mandatory
Statement against the mandatory imposition of Aarogya Setu App on workers
New video: Data is an extension of our bodies
National Coalition urges Government to comply with privacy principles during COVID-19
Our submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
Our new video explains how to trust on the Internet – by remixing already familiar proverbs
Submission in response to the draft e‑commerce policy
Online Gods Podcast, featuring our work on Gendering Surveillance
Internet Democracy Project joins global coalition that urges India to withdraw proposed amendments to Intermediary Guidelines
Draft amendments to Intermediary Guidelines Rules raise serious concern for freedom of expression and privacy
We signed an open letter to the leaders of the world’s governments demanding #SecurityForAll
Open letter to Facebook about its ‘real name’ policy
We need a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy!
Letter from international civil society organisations to President Dilma Rousseff in support of her statement at the 68th Session of the UNGA
India’s Central Monitoring System: No getting away from the gaze of the State
Can security and human rights be reconciled?
Freedom Online Coalition: A Call to Governments from civil society
Civil society letter to US Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance
Civil society statement to the UN HRC on the impact of state surveillance on human rights globally, addressing the US PRISM program
Global coalition of NGOs calls to investigate and disable FinFisher’s espionage equipment in Pakistan
Quotable Quotes from #SAFoE
Moving forward in fighting online hate speech and excessive surveillance: Suggestions and solutions from #SAFoE
Cyber security, surveillance and anonymity: The debate at #SAFoE
Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: Country perspectives – #SAFoE
Negotiating cyber security, surveillance and hate speech: Keynote speech by Prof. KS Park – #SAFoE