From internet shutdowns to censorship, IFF fought for your digital freedoms this year. Wins, setbacks, and everything in between—take a look back at what we were up to in 2024 ⏪1/9
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2024 Year in Review: In Court –– We won, but persist
In 2024, the legal team at IFF expanded our horizons—engaging with Constitutional Courts, and tribunals across India––holding the State and ...
🚨 Big updates from 2024! We filed 511 RTIs to uncover the truth about surveillance, AI, content takedowns & more, 68 First Appeals & 5 cases to the CIC. What did we find? Secretive consultations, unclear AI policies & censorship in action. 👇
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2024 Year in Review: Digital Transparency keeps institutions accountable
In 2024, we filed 511 RTIs, 68 first appeals and 5 second appeals with various public authorities. We uncovered some big revelations through our tr...
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Training AI requires huge amounts of data, & recent debates on how your public personal data is obtained through platforms like LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Meta & Bluesky have opened our eyes to the opt-out cop out – how these platforms are scraping user data for training AI often without your consent 🧵1/8
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The Opt out conundrum: Analysis of web scrapping to train AI models
This post analyses the recent debate that exposed social media platforms using user data to train AI models, often without explicit user consent.
📍Delhi! Catch IFF Associate Policy Counsel Karthika Rajmohan & Of-Counsel Vrinda Bhandari along with a panel of experts for CCG NLUD’s event: "Navigating Data Protection & Digital Rights: Setting the 2025 Agenda". 📅Monday, 16th Dec ⏲️5:00 - 7:30 PM 🗺Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre 🔗Register now:
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Navigating Data Protection and Digital Rights: Setting the 2025 Agenda
This is a form to collect responses for attendance to CCG NLUD's in-person, panel discussions on Data Protection and Digital Rights on 16 December ...
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On the occasion of 75 years of the Constitution, the Ministry of Culture has launched the
Hamara Samvidhan, Hamara Swabhiman
Know your Constitution. Ask questions about the Constitution of India, read the preamble and earn a certificate.
 website allowing citizens to ‘read the Preamble and share their videos’. However, a glance at the website's privacy policy raises some concerns. (1/10)
🚨 Massive Victory! 🚨 CCI has imposed a historic penalty of ₹213.14 cr (approx. $25.25 M) on Meta for abusing its dominant position via WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy. IFF submitted expert information as an informant. Let’s break it down 🧵👇1/10
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Statement: CCI imposes landmark penalty of ₹213.14 crore on Meta for exploiting its dominant position through WhatsApp’s 2021 Privacy Policy
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a landmark penalty of ₹213.14 crore (approximately $25.25 million) on Meta for exploiting i...
In Sept, we found out that the Goa Govt has launched a Social Media Influencer Policy to empanel influencers to promote govt schemes & policies. However, the policy was not made public. We filed an RTI requesting the policy doc & other info on this policy. The recent response provided by the Goa govt offers a promising step towards greater transparency & accountability in govt policies. 1/7
Like, Share, Prescribe 🤨? On Aug 28, 2024, the UP govt introduced the Digital Media Policy, 2024 with financial incentives for digital creators. We compared 5 state-level digital media policies & their impact on our right to free speech. ⅛
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Like, Share, Prescribe? A comparative analysis of five state-level digital media/influencer policies
Through research and using the RTI, we have accessed state-level digital media and influencer-centric policies of various Indian states. In this po...