Born out of #SaveTheInternet. IFF advances democratic freedoms in a digital society. 👀: internetfreedom@mas.to /bsky.social
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Now that we have your attention, here are the recent ways in which Indian public authorities and police forces used (and abused) facial recognition systems, jeorpardising the human rights and data privacy of millions of Indian citizens without much accountability. 2/10 🧵
The establishment of the FCU less than a month before the country heads for the #GeneralElections2024 could vastly affect the nature of free speech on the internet as it holds the potential to be (mis)used for proactive censorship, most importantly in the context of dissent. 2/9
In support of #SeditionLaw, the LCI, headed by Former Chief Justice of Karnataka HC, Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, has referred to the Supreme Court's 1962 judgment in Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar for clarity, while ending up making it more unclear than before. 2/10
In March 2022, @reporters_co, with ad.watch released “Eyeball Politics”, a series of 4 investigative reports examining the murky world of political advertising on Meta platforms & how it can influence political outcomes in India. 2/6
In March 2023, @WSJ published a report on Monu Manesar, a cow vigilante whose social media profile had videos of his team chasing suspected cow smugglers. The Report stated that human rights groups had warned Meta that such videos may trigger violence. 2/6
In 2021, @FrancesHaugen left her job at @Meta, taking tens of thousands of pages of internal documents with her, which she leaked to @SECGov. These documents were the basis of investigations by @WSJ & a consortium of media organisations. 2/8