Author
Gurshabad Grover
37 items.
26 Aug 2024
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Online Censorship: Perspectives From Content Creators and Comparative Law on Section 69A of the Information Technology ActThis study presents a comparative analysis of Indian censorship law and experiences of people who have had their online content censored.
4 Jan 2022
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Call for respondents: the implementation of government-ordered censorshipThe Centre for Internet and Society is conducting interviews with people whose content has been affected by blocking orders from the Indian Government.
15 Dec 2021
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Online caste-hate speech: Pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social mediaA research report on the contours of online caste-hate speech and how social media platforms moderate such expression.
26 Sep 2021
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International Cyber Law Toolkit scenario: Internet blockageArindrajit Basu and Gurshabad Grover’s scenario and international law analysis Internet Blockage was published as part of the NATO Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s Cyber Law Toolkit as part of its September 2021 annual …
12 Jul 2021
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The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End EncryptionA legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
21 Jun 2021
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On the legality and constitutionality of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021This note examines the legality and constitutionality of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The analysis is consistent with previous work carried out by CIS on issues of …
19 Jan 2021
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Response to Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment PeriodCIS has submitted a response to Mozilla's DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
31 Dec 2020
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Notes From a Foreign Field: The European Court of Human Rights on Russia’s Website BlockingThis blogpost summarises the human rights principles applied by the Court to website blocking, and discusses how they can be instructive to petitions in the Delhi High Court that challenge arbitrary censorship in India.
31 Dec 2020
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Media Market Risk Ratings: IndiaThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with …
26 Dec 2020
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India Digital Freedom Series: Internet Shutdowns, Censorship and SurveillanceA series of reports on digital rights and civic space in India, focusing on four areas where restrictive policies threaten fundamental freedoms and impede public participation: internet shutdowns, censorship, platform governance and …
29 Nov 2020
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Intermediary liability and Safe Harbour: On due diligence and automated filteringThis post discusses this ‘due diligence’ obligation in the intermediary liability regime in India, with a focus on its scope and whether it includes the possibility of automated content filtering.
9 Jul 2020
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Investigating TLS blocking in IndiaA study into Transport Layer Security (TLS)-based blocking by three popular Indian ISPs: ACT Fibernet, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio.
25 Jun 2020
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Donald Trump is attacking the social media giants; here’s what India should do differentlyFor a robust and rights-respecting public sphere, India needs to ensure that large social media platforms receive adequate protections, and are made more responsible to its users.
19 Feb 2020
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How the Data Protection Bill Regulates Social Media PlatformsThe Bill gives the Centre the power to designate certain social media intermediaries as significant data fiduciaries.
14 Feb 2020
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Content takedown and users' rightsAfter Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable …
10 Feb 2020
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2 Jan 2020
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Pegasus snoopgate, an opportune moment to revisit legal framework governing state surveillance frameworkRevelations of hacking call for a relook at India’s surveillance regime
7 Nov 2019
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Reliance Jio is using SNI inspection to block websitesReliance Jio, the most popular ISP in India, is employing a deep packet inspection technique to block websites for its users.
30 Oct 2019
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Through the looking glass: Analysing transparency reportsAn analysis of companies' transparency reports for government requests for user data and content removal
27 Sep 2019
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Examining the Constitutionality of the Ban on Broadcast of News by Private FM and Community Radio StationsGurshabad Grover and Torsha Sarkar along with Rajashri Seal and Neil Trivedi co-authored a paper that examined the constitutionality of the government prohibition on the broadcast of news against private and community FM channels.
28 Aug 2019
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A judicial overreach into matters of regulationA PIL on Aadhaar sheds light on some problematic trends
3 Jul 2019
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The Impact of Consolidation in the Internet Economy on the Evolution of the InternetThe Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with the Internet Society organized an event on the impact of consolidation in the Internet economy. It was divided into two roundtable discussions, the first one focusing on the policies …
30 May 2019
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The Huawei bogeyIndia needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands.
9 May 2019
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RTI Application to BSNL for the list of websites blocked in IndiaA Right to Information (RTI) request to a public company operating as an ISP for the list of websites and URLs blocked in India, and copies of such blocking orders issued by the Government of India.
5 May 2019
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Why the TikTok ban is worryingRather than critically examining the infringement of liberties by the political executive, the Indian courts are becoming an additional threat to the right to freedom of expression, which we must be increasingly wary of.
16 Apr 2019
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To preserve freedoms online, amend the IT ActLook into the mechanisms that allow the government and ISPs to carry out online censorship without accountability.
20 Feb 2019
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CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human RightsCIS responded to the call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights.
7 Feb 2019
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Response to the Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018In this response, we aim to examine whether the draft rules meet tests of constitutionality and whether they are consistent with the parent Act. We also examine potential harms that may arise from the Rules as they are currently framed and …
24 Jan 2019
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India should reconsider its proposed regulation of online contentThe lack of technical considerations in the proposal is also apparent since implementing the proposal is infeasible for certain intermediaries. End-to-end encrypted messaging services cannot “identify” unlawful content since they cannot …