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India’s surveillance State: An Overview

Just over a year ago, the world was treated to a rude awakening by a hitherto unknown Edward Snowden, when he made public thousands of classified documents that belonged to

India to ban Internet porn?

While the ubiquitous presence of pornographic content on the internet is just another fact of life to the average internet user, two petitions that seek to restrict internet porn in India have been steadily gaining traction in media circles: In a petition currently pending

Internet Users’ Bill of Rights

India has the third largest number of Internet users, next only to United States and China and this number is rapidly growing. While the growth of the internet has touched every walk of modern life with banking, travelling, communication, sex, politics, delivery of Government

Rajeev Chandrashekhar v. Union of India [W.P.(C) No. 23 of 2013]

This writ petition has been filed in public interest under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, challenging Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Rules 3(2), 3(3), 3(4) and 3(7) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules,