Privacy and surveillance
Under the larger issue of Data
Summary
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 & Reports
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Submission in response to the draft e-commerce
policy The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a draft national e-commerce policy and invited public comments. The Internet Democracy Project submitted comments highlighting why the policy is dangerous in its framing of data as a resource to extract for national development.
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Internet Democracy Project joins global coalition that urges India to withdraw proposed amendments to Intermediary
Guidelines The Internet Democracy Project has joined a global coalition of civil society and technology experts that sent a joint letter to the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 15 March, asking the Government of India to withdraw the draft amendments proposed to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules. The coalition warns that the government’s proposed amendments on intermediary liability will harm digital security and human rights, and calls on the government to withdraw the proposed amendments and start a fresh consultation process. A press release can be found here. The full text of the letter can be found below. More