The article was originally published in Boom Live. Read here. The central government has proposed some changes to India’s hallmark transparency law, the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005 which has raised concerns and criticism. The changes are sought to be done via the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP), 2022 which will bring in…
The article was originally published in Adani Watch. Read here. The Supreme Court of India’s order in the Adani-Hindenburg case does nothing to ensure an independent and fair investigation into allegations of corporate fraud by the Adani Group. The Expert Committee appointed by the court to study regulatory frameworks has a member close to Prime…
The article was originally published in Article 14. Read here. New Delhi: A 2 March 2023 decision by the Supreme Court of India to create a committee of experts to analyse the regulatory framework in India’s securities market in wake of allegations against the Adani group, has dampened criticism of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and—given the…
The article was originally published in Boom Live. Read here. In 2017, while delivering the landmark Right to Privacy judgement, a Supreme Court of India judge said, “Humans forget, the Internet does not, and does not let humans forget.” Justice SK Kaul ruled that the right of an individual to exercise control over personal data and…
The article was originally published in Article 14. Read here. New Delhi: “As far as India is concerned, I would like to say Christian groups are more dangerous than Islamic groups. Both are equally dangerous in the context of conversion, especially Love Jihad.” “The problem of Christian (sic). If the Islamic terror (sic) is green terror,…
The article was originally published in Boom. Read here. On a usual morning in September 2020, Tribhuvan, a daily wage labourer who lives in a village called Umari in Maharashtra, logged on to Facebook. As he scrolled through his feed, a catchy advertisement offering massive discounts on shoes, belts, and goggles caught his attention. The…
The article was originally published in Article 14. Read here. New Delhi: “Judicial review of legislative and executive actions is an integral part of the constitutional scheme. I would go as far as to state that it is the heart and soul of the Indian Constitution. In my humble view, in the absence of judicial review,…
The article was originally published in Boom. Read here. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) recently told the Parliament in July that it had issued 1,122 orders to block Twitter content till June this year. In 2021, this figure stood at 2,851 — against 2,731 in 2020 and 1,041 in 2019 — showing…
The article was originally published in Boom. Read here. The arrest of Mohammed Zubair, journalist and co-founder of a fact-checking news website Alt News has sparked outrage not only on the issue of falling press freedom in India, but also on the issue of data privacy. On June 27, Zubair was arrested by the Delhi…
The article was originally published in Article 14. Read here. New Delhi: At least 470,000 unique identity numbers (UIDs) issued by India’s 13-year-old national identity database, Aadhaar, over nine years were fraudulent. The system is susceptible to being hacked or otherwise undermined, and its own recent warnings of misuse reveal its vulnerabilities. About 30 million of the poorest…
The article was originally published in Article 14. Read here. A Pune police refusal to reply to right-to-information (RTI) queries about the use of Israeli spyware Pegasus raise several questions about whether the military-grade hacking weapon was deployed in implicating lawyers, activists, and academics in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad (BK-EP) case, which invokes India’s draconian counter-terrorism law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act,…
The article was originally published in The Taut [not live now]. Though a copy is irretrievable, you can read the crux of the story below. You can also view the video story here. Year by year, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government lowered its spending on developing minority-dominated districts in the state, until it finally…