#LetTheNetWork
SFLC.in presents to you its #Report:"Internet Shutdowns In India 2022".
An attempt to fully understand the frequency, extent and impact of #InternetShutdowns in India in 2022.
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#Internet #keepiton #democracy #BREAKING The year 2022 has seen 75 shutdowns till the publication of this report. The previous decade has witnessed an exponential increase in internet shutdowns in India with a total count of 690, out of which 110 had been implemented in the year 2021.

#LetTheNetWork
@SFLCin is launching a #Report to help understand the intensity, extent, and impact of internet shutdowns in #India for the year 2022.
#keepiton #InternetShutdowns #Exclusive In the year 2022 Indian government snapped internet service across various states 75 times.
81.3% of restrictions were placed upon mobile internet services and for 13.3% no information was available.
While 5.3% restrictions were both for broadband and mobile internet services.

#IGF2022
@SFLCin team will be attending this years @intgovforum in #AddisAbaba, Ethiopia from 28 November to 2 December 2022.
The the overarching theme for #IGF2022 is - "Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future."
#ResilientInternet #IGF #DigitalDefenders #eventupdates
We are hosting 2 sessions and participating in one. We are looking forward to having interesting conversations around "Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future".
The session details are given below -

Last Month, the #SupremeCourt issued a notice to @GoI_MeitY on account of a PIL filed by @SFLCin challenging #InternetShutdowns imposed to prevent cheating in exams in Indian states.
The next hearing in the case will take place tomorrow.
Here’s everything you need to know: (1/n) @SFLCin had filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution against the States of #ArunachalPradesh, #Rajasthan, #Gujarat and #WestBengal, challenging the arbitrary imposition of #InternetShutdowns during examinations.
The state of #Assam is impleaded as well. (2/n)

The United Nations condemns 42 countries, including India, for retaliating against human rights activists & journalists.
@TheCitizen_in
#HumanRights #UnitedNations #India #Journalists #Media #CivilRights

thecitizen.in/world/india-am… In his annual report, Secretary General Antonio Guterres highlights the disturbing trend of human rights violations against journalists and human rights defenders at the hands of States and non-State actors over the past year.

#HumanRights #India #UnitedNations #Journalists

#Reminder
@SFLCin invites lawyers from across India to apply for our #DigitalDefendersNetwork Training Program.
Last date to apply - 15th September

🔗ddn.sflc.in

Here's everything you need to know about the course curriculum: 🧵
#DDN #Digitalrights #SafeInternet The 5-week #DigitalDefendersNetwork training program is designed to impart the legal and technical knowledge necessary to defend digital rights and freedoms.

Module 1 - Digital Security Training

#DDN #Internet #Rights #Digitalrights #SafeInternet #DigitalSecurityTraining

#Breaking

Big win for digital rights!
Supreme Court issued a notice to @GoI_MeitY today on account of a PIL filed by @SFLCin challenging the imposition of #InternetShutdowns to prevent cheating in exams in several Indian states.
@NetShutdowns

#LetTheNetWork #DigitalRights @SFLCin had filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution against the States of #ArunachalPradesh, #Rajasthan, #Gujarat and #WestBengal, challenging the arbitrary imposition of #InternetShutdowns during examinations.
The state of #Assam was impleaded as well.

#BREAKING
@SFLCin's writ petition challenging arbitrary internet shutdowns during examinations is being taken up in the Supreme Court of India.
#InternetShutdowns #keepiton #SupremeCourtOfIndia
internetshutdowns.in The Writ Petition is being argued by Ms. @vrindagrover who is assisted by the, Adv., Prasanna S (AoR), Shoutik Banerjee, Swati Arya & Yuvraj Singh Rathore.

A #Twitter whistleblower’s allegations that the Indian government forced the company to hire at least one individual who was a government agent and had access to user data, should be taken seriously, warn experts in the #technology and #policy sectors.

scroll.in/article/103156… @MishiChoudhary, founder of @SFLCin says that the more someone knows about a user, the more power they have over them. “Personal data is used to make a variety of decisions in and about our lives: jobs, government benefits, relationships & insurance are just a few of them.”

We need your #support
The Standing Committee on IT should investigate the impact of recent Twitter revelations on Indian users and their rights.
#Sign this letter to make an impact.
docs.google.com/document/d/11N…
@PMOIndia @ShashiTharoor @MahuaMoitra Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter
“Mudge” Zatko, recently alleged that the platform misled regulators, and violated security and privacy standards.
edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tec…

#DigitalDefendersNetwork
Digital Defenders Network (DDN) is our attempt to strengthen the digital rights movement in India.
Here's everything you need to know about #DDN: 🧵

#internet #rights #digitalrights #safeinternet #trainingcourse #training #digitalsecuritytraining @SFLCin has been working to safeguard the digital rights of Indian citizens for over 10 years now. The #DigitalDefendersNetwork is a nationwide initiative to fight against the invasion of personal rights and freedoms.
#internet #rights #digitalrights #safeinternet #trainingcourse

@SFLCin had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India in April 2022 challenging various Indian State governments imposing arbitrary internet shutdowns during examinations.
#InternetShutdowns #KeepItOn #SupremeCourt #DigitalDarkness The petition filed under #Article32 of the Indian Constitution challenges the states of #ArunachalPradesh, #Rajasthan, #Gujarat and #WestBengal.
We have impleaded the State of #Assam as a party through an Intervention Application filed recently.
#InternetShutdowns #LetTheNetWork

#Update
@SFLCin has written a letter to @ShashiTharoor and the Standing Committee on IT to investigate whistleblower #Mudge’s revelations.
#twitter #Whistleblower Through the letter we have urged the Standing Committee, to investigate the impact of these revelations on Indian users and their rights.

#LetTheNetWork
@SFLCin had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India in April of this year challenging various Indian State governments imposing arbitrary internet shutdowns during examinations.
#InternetShutdowns #keepiton #BREAKING
internetshutdowns.in The petition filed under #Article32 of the Indian Constitution challenges the states of #ArunachalPradesh, #Rajasthan, #Gujarat and #WestBengal. We have impleaded State of #Assam as a party through an Intervention Application filed this week.

#PrivacyDay2022
The Right to Privacy was recognised as a Fundamental Right guaranteed under our Constitution on this day, five years ago by the Supreme Court of India when it delivered the landmark judgment - 'Retd. Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India'

#PrivacyMatters The Honorable Supreme Court of India held the #RightToPrivacy to be an essential part of liberty protected under Article 21, and freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution.

#PrivacyDay2022 #PrivacyMatters #FundamentalRights #India #Democracy

#Updates on @videolan being inaccessible on ISP platforms.
As per the last #RTI response, @GoI_MeitY
had said, “No information is available with this ministry related to videolan.org website”.
We have filed a second appeal for it & are awaiting a response.
#Censorship After not receiving satisfactory response from @GoI_MeitY, we have filed two applications under the Right to Information Act, 2005 with @BSNLCorporate and the @DoT_India as well.
#WebsiteBlocking #FreeSpeech #blocked #rtItBot

#DigitalDefendersNetwork

@SFLCin's Digital Defenders Network is a pan-India initiative to fight against the invasion of personal rights and freedoms.

Here's a mega-thread with everything you need to know: 🧵

#DDN #DigitalRights #Democracy #Internet #Rights #SafeInternet Our founder @MishiChoudhary about the Digital Defenders Network

#DigitalDefendersNetwork #DDN #DigitalRights #Democracy #Internet #Rights #SafeInternet #DigitalSecurityTraining #Training

https://twitter.com/SFLCin/status/1554053440741199873?s=20&t=YEE2eqbIlJDzilPt8WzgPg

#RTI
An RTI filed by SFLC.in,the reply for which came after 5 months reveals that #InternetShutdowns were imposed in Jammu & Kashmir for a period of 2 months.
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#LetTheNetWork #keepiton #internetshutdown #JammuKashmir #BreakingNews SFLCin had received information that the mobile Internet was being frequently suspended in various regions of Kashmir for nearly 10 hours every day.

#Breaking_News
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, prima facie, fails to satisfy the tests laid down by the Supreme Court in the landmark decision in K.S. Puttaswamy (2017).
#CriminalProcedureIdentificationBill2022 #LokSabha #surveillance #privacymatters The collection and processing of sensitive personal data such as biometric & biological samples for the purposes of identification do not, satisfy the test of proportionality.

#LetTheNetWork
An #RTI response from the Rajasthan government reveals that a total of 6 shutdowns were imposed during August 2018 in the districts of #Ajmer, #Bhilwara, #Naguar and #Tonk to prevent cheating in exams.
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#keepiton #internetshutdown The RTI response states that the law under which the suspension was ordered is Order Number F 35(1) Home-9/ 2006 Pt. Dated 02-09-2017 issued by Home (Gr.9) Department of Rajasthan Government.

#Thread
Recently, many #Muslim women on social media were targeted by the misogynist #BulliBaiApp that auctioned their pictures online. Incidents like these are the reason women feel unsafe on the internet. Here’s what you should know about reporting such online harassment- (1) According to the National Crime Records Bureau @NCRBHQ , there was an 11.8% increase in reported cyber crimes in India between 2019 and 2020. A total of 50,035 cyber crime cases were registered in 2020 alone.
Source: ncrb.gov.in/en/Crime-in-In… (2)