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Disproportionate, band-aid solution: IFF on Centre's curbs on Telegram ahead of NEET re-examThe Internet Freedom Foundation has voiced strong opposition to the government's controversial move to not only ban Telegram but also to st...- X Corp challenges legality of 'Sahyog' portal takedown process before Karnataka High CourtSocial media giant X Corp informs Karnataka High Court about government content removal requests. The company argues that government agenci...
- X marks a spot for content-blockers: Why Elon Musk’s platform is taking GoI to courtKarnataka High Court will hear a case involving X (formerly Twitter) alleging the Government of India is misusing Section 79 of the IT Act ...
- Fact-checking unit unlikely to be notified until July 28On Friday, lawyer Gautam Bhatia argued before Bombay HC on behalf of Association of Indian Magazines in the challenge to IT Rules, 2023, wh...
- Karnataka High Court adjourns hearing in Twitter case to March 16The hearing was before a single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit. Additional Solicitor General R Sankaranarayanan appearing for the g...
- IT rules should balance security with furthering rights, says studyThe Regulatory Impact Assessment Study of the IT Rules of 2021, jointly conducted by The Dialogue and IAMAI, noted that the safe harbour pr...
- States responsible for implementation of 2015 judgement scrapping Section 66A of IT Act: Centre to SCIn the affidavit filed before a bench headed by Justice R F Nariman, the Centre said that state law enforcement agencies are responsible fo...
- Why are cases still registered under Section 66A of IT act, asks SCLegality of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act was challenged in the Shreya Singhal case and the law was struck down as “vague” ...
- Supreme Court expresses disbelief on continued use of Section 66A of IT Act"What is going on is terrible," a Supreme Court bench told Sanjay Parikh of People Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which filed an applica...
- View: Three lessons for Kerala's government from the Supreme Court's Shreya Singhal judgmentThe judgment provided early support for civil society groups, media critiques and an active political debate. It led to several PILs in the...
- Activist Shreya Singhal plans to challenge govt's recent move to intercept data on computersSinghal is currently prepping up to file a PIL in the Supreme Court against these two measures.
- Law student Shreya Singhal may challenge new 66A in Supreme CourtShreya Singhal, who was instrumental in getting Section 66A struck down, will approach Supreme Court if the new provision impedes freedom o...
- This 24-year old woman fought India's government to win its people freedom onlineShreya Singhal was 21 years old when she filed the petition in 2012. She expressed her feelings in one word when we reached out to her: "Ov...
- Section 66A: In times of bans, free speech is all we have, says Shreya SinghalThe apex court on scrapped the law, finally bringing to an end a law that was long abused by governments and authorities against individual...
- Section 66A of IT Act: We took up battle, big guys didn’t, says MouthShut founder Faisal FarooquiSC scrapped section 66A of Indian IT Act which gave the government rights to arrest and penalise web-users for posting ‘objectionable’ cont...
- Arrest of Mumbai girls over Facebook comment was abuse of power: CentreThe SC had taken strong exception to the arrest of the girls, after a PIL filed also cited several other incidents of similar abuse of powe...
- Supreme Court notice to centre, Maharashtra on Facebook incident and misuse of Section 66A of IT ActThe bench asked the Maharashtra government to explain how the law came to be misused and whether any action had been taken against anybody ...
- Facebook case: Supreme Court seeks explanation from Maharashtra government on girls' arrestThe bench asked the state government to file its response within four weeks on the public interest litigation filed by a Delhi student, Shr...
- SC seeks AG's help in deciding plea to amend IT ActChief Justice Altamas Kabir refused the petitioner's plea that no coercive action should be taken by government against posting messages on...
- Supreme Court to hear Public Interest Litigation to amend Information Technology ActVoicing concern over arrests for alleged offensive messages on websites, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a PIL seeking amendment to the IT...
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