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Today we sent a legal notice to BECIL against a tender for procurement of fact verification and disinformation detection tools which will lead to mass surveillance of social media users. 1/n

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People share information about their political views, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health etc on social media. The govt should not collect, process and indefinitely retain such senstive personal information without our knowledge and consent. 2/n
Any profiling based on social media activity is particularly susceptible to misinterpretation because the use of likes, shares or hashtags may not represent endorsement. 3/n
In 2018, BECIL had sought to create a more ambitious version of this project in the form of a Social Media Communication Hub. Thankfully, the Hub was scrapped after public outrage and litigation. 4/n

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The present tender should also meet the same fate but this will required sustained advocacy by citizens and civil society groups to ensure we do not sleep walk into a surveillance state. 5/n
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Remember when DoT claimed it had sought bulk call data records for call drop analysis and there was no cause for concern? Well, turns out that claim doesn't hold up to scrutiny based on RTI responses received by IFF. 1/n

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We received RTI responses from DoT's Licensed Service Area Units in Haryana, Kolkata, Kochi, Shillong and Pune. The reasons provided by these units for requisitioning bulk call data records do not mention call drops. 2/n
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In this blogpost, we aim to highlight the access to internet problems being faced by the citizens of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and how this is affecting them particularly due to the pandemic. 1/17

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Internet and telecommunication services in the A&N Islands are presently dependent on satellite connectivity and have access to limited bandwidth. This has led to unreliable internet connectivity as well as extremely high tariffs like 54,902 INR. 2/17

Even when there is internet connectivity, it is slow at best with the combined bandwidth availability for Andaman & Nicobar Islands being only 3.2 GBps. 3/17
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On May 11 @GOI_MeitY published the Aarogya Setu data access and sharing protocol, signed by @SecretaryMEITY. IFF has done a clause by clause analysis of the Protocol and found many shortcomings.
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A generous description is that it does not satisfy thresholds of legality, necessity and proportionality. More realistic is that without intervention the framework does little to improve privacy and justifies the Government’s otherwise unconstitutional practices.
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The Protocol shouldn't be bandied about like it is a legislation which holds @SetuAarogya accountable. @SecretaryMEITY has said there are no plans to create an underlying legislation since the “priority at present is to deal with the epidemic itself”
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