Catergory

RTI

Quarterly Transparency Report for January-March, 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, IFF's transparency vertical filed 15 RTI applications to seek accountability from public institutions on digital rights issues and received some significant information with a mix of some omissions and evasions.

03 April, 2025

6 min read

Medha Garg &

Rubayya Tasneem

RTI

Quarterly Transparency Report for October-December 2024: APAAR ID (again), Digital Media Policy and more

In the fourth quarter of 2024, IFF's transparency vertical filed 9 RTI applications to seek accountability from public institutions on digital rights issues and received some significant information with a mix of some omissions and evasions.

23 December, 2024

10 min read

Quarterly Transparency Report for April-June 2024: AI, elections, a never-ending APAAR ID saga, and more

In the second quarter of 2024, IFF's transparency vertical filed 211 RTI applications and 32 First Appeals to seek accountability from public institutions on digital rights issues, and received some notable information, but also some silences.

11 July, 2024

13 min read

Quarterly Transparency Report for January-March 2024: Censorship, Surveillance, Smartcities and more

In the first quarter of 2024, IFF's transparency vertical filed 64 RTI applications to seek accountability from public institutions on digital rights issues, and received some notable information, but also some silences.

30 April, 2024

9 min read

Disha Verma

CERT-In

Statement: Exemption of CERT-In from the RTI Act dilutes institutional transparency and weakens individual privacy

An amendment to the Second Schedule to the RTI Act, 2005 was notified on November 24, 2023, exempting CERT-In from providing information under the Act. This move is certainly not in the public interest as it weakens the rights of the people by diluting an Act meant to empower them.

25 November, 2023

3 min read

Tejasi Panjiar &

Prateek Waghre

misinformation

Request declined: Bengaluru Police rejects information sought in our first appeal on the Karnataka fact checking unit

Out first appeal inquiring about the constitution of a Fact Checking Unit (FCU) by the Bengaluru Police was rejected by the PIO for Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City. This was despite announcement of its establishment by the state government.

25 October, 2023

6 min read

Tejasi Panjiar

delhi police

After IFF writes to the Delhi Police Commissioner, Delhi Police has deleted the data and removed the Google Form that collected data from Delhi’s residents hailing from NE States, Darjeeling and Ladakh

We are grateful to the Delhi Police and to the Police Commissioner, Delhi for understanding our concerns and taking appropriate and immediate action

06 October, 2023

3 min read

Tanmay Singh

RTI

REVEALED: MeitY and MIB admit to ordering censorship of internet posts talking about the Muzaffarnagar slapping incident; but refuse to say why because of “national security”

IFF will file appeals with the First Appellate Authority, challenging the rejection of these RTI requests.

05 October, 2023

5 min read

Tanmay Singh

RTI

Fact-Checking or Fact-Hiding? Our RTI inquiring about the Karnataka Fact Checking Unit rejected!

Our RTI request with the Bengaluru Police inquiring about the constitution of a fact check unit (FCU) was rejected stating it as ‘completely vague, speculative and questionable’. However, since then the Chief Minister of Karnataka has reportedly approved the setting up of a state-level FCU.

29 August, 2023

7 min read

Tejasi Panjiar &

Prateek Waghre

RTI

The J&K Home Department’s RTI Appellate Authority directs that Review Committee’s findings on internet shutdowns must be provided in RTI

The First Appellate Authority (“FAA”) in J&K’s Home Department has directed the Public Information Officer (“PIO”) to provide copies of the Review Committee’s findings on internet shutdown orders.

22 August, 2023

5 min read

Radhika Roy

Catergory

RTI

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