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A heartfelt thank you to the incredible legal team: Apar Gupta, Gautam Bhatia, Brinda Bhandari, Abhinav Sekhri, Gayatri Malhotra, Rubayya Tasneem, and Medha Garg. Their dedication, brilliance, & unwavering support have been the backbone of our strategic litigation efforts. We’re so grateful to have them in this fight! 8/9

From internet shutdowns to censorship, IFF fought for your digital freedoms this year. Wins, setbacks, and everything in between—take a look back at what we were up to in 2024 ⏪1/9

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2024 Year in Review: In Court –– We won, but persist

In 2024, the legal team at IFF expanded our horizons—engaging with Constitutional Courts, and tribunals across India––holding the State and ...

🚨 Big updates from 2024! We filed 511 RTIs to uncover the truth about surveillance, AI, content takedowns & more, 68 First Appeals & 5 cases to the CIC. What did we find? Secretive consultations, unclear AI policies & censorship in action. 👇

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2024 Year in Review: Digital Transparency keeps institutions accountable

In 2024, we filed 511 RTIs, 68 first appeals and 5 second appeals with various public authorities. We uncovered some big revelations through our tr...

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Training AI requires huge amounts of data, & recent debates on how your public personal data is obtained through platforms like LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Meta & Bluesky have opened our eyes to the opt-out cop out – how these platforms are scraping user data for training AI often without your consent 🧵1/8

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The Opt out conundrum: Analysis of web scrapping to train AI models

This post analyses the recent debate that exposed social media platforms using user data to train AI models, often without explicit user consent.

📍Delhi! Catch IFF Associate Policy Counsel Karthika Rajmohan & Of-Counsel Vrinda Bhandari along with a panel of experts for CCG NLUD’s event: "Navigating Data Protection & Digital Rights: Setting the 2025 Agenda". 📅Monday, 16th Dec ⏲️5:00 - 7:30 PM 🗺Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre 🔗Register now:

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Navigating Data Protection and Digital Rights: Setting the 2025 Agenda

This is a form to collect responses for attendance to CCG NLUD's in-person, panel discussions on Data Protection and Digital Rights on 16 December ...

On the occasion of 75 years of the Constitution, the Ministry of Culture has launched the

Hamara Samvidhan, Hamara Swabhiman

Know your Constitution. Ask questions about the Constitution of India, read the preamble and earn a certificate.

website allowing citizens to ‘read the Preamble and share their videos’. However, a glance at the website's privacy policy raises some concerns. (1/10)

🚨 Massive Victory! 🚨 CCI has imposed a historic penalty of ₹213.14 cr (approx. $25.25 M) on Meta for abusing its dominant position via WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy. IFF submitted expert information as an informant. Let’s break it down 🧵👇1/10

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Statement: CCI imposes landmark penalty of ₹213.14 crore on Meta for exploiting its dominant position through WhatsApp’s 2021 Privacy Policy

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a landmark penalty of ₹213.14 crore (approximately $25.25 million) on Meta for exploiting i...