Topic
Encryption Policy
7 items.
12 Jul 2021
Blog post
The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End EncryptionA legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
30 Nov 2018
Blog post
Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETFThe institution of open standards has been described as a formidable regulatory regime governing the Internet. Given the regulatory and domestic policy implications that technical standards can have, there is a need for Indian governmental …
12 Jan 2016
Blog post
Pre-Budget Consultation 2016 - Submission to the IT Group of the Ministry of FinanceThe Ministry of Finance has recently held pre-budget consultations with different stakeholder groups in connection with the Union Budget 2016-17. We were invited to take part in the consultation for the IT (hardware and software) group …
27 Nov 2015
Blog post
The Short-lived Adventure of India’s Encryption PolicyWritten for the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA).
1 Oct 2015
News
Online outcry forces government to withdraw draft encryption policyThe article by Naina Khedekar discussing encryption policy was published in First Post on September 23, 2015. Pranesh Prakash has been quoted.
27 Sep 2015
News
‘By weakening our security, govt is putting us at risk of espionage’After the BlackBerry encryption and IT Act fiascos of recent years, the government last week sent yet another cyber policy howler, the Draft National Encryption Policy, only to withdraw it in the face of severe protests. S. Raghotham and …
22 Sep 2015
News
Bowing to public pressure, govt withdraws draft encryption policyBowing to pressure from the public, the government on Tuesday withdrew a draft policy that sought to control secured online communication, including through mass-use social media and web applications such as WhatsApp and Twitter.