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DPDP Rules, 2025

IFF’s Response to MEITY on the Draft Data Protection Rules

The Draft Data Protection Rules, 2025 weaken privacy rights, expand government surveillance, undermine RTI, and lack accountability, failing to meet constitutional standards for data protection in India.
05 March, 2025
6 min read
Apar GuptaApar Gupta, Medha GargMedha Garg, Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka & Rubayya TasneemRubayya Tasneem
AI

IFF’s Submissions on the MeitY Report on AI Governance Guidelines

MeitY released its report ‘AI Governance Guidelines Development’ on January 6, 2025 and opened it up for public feedback to guide the development of a trustworthy and accountable AI ecosystem in India. This post summarises IFF’s response.
03 March, 2025
4 min read
Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka & Naman KumarNaman Kumar
elections

IFF’s submission to the UN Report on “Freedom of Expression and Elections in the Digital Age”

The submission highlights censorship, content moderation, regulatory developments, and recommendations to protect digital rights in India’s electoral process.
26 February, 2025
7 min read
Naman KumarNaman Kumar, Gayatri MalhotraGayatri Malhotra, Injila Muslim ZaidiInjila Muslim Zaidi & Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka
Consultations

Mukesh is coming to your home and you can’t skip it: IFF’s submissions on the Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products Amendment Rules 2024

Keeping in mind the injurious health impact of tobacco consumption, IFF submitted comments to MoHFW on the draft Cigarettes & Other Tobacco Products Amendment Rules, 2024 from a free speech perspective.
28 October, 2024
6 min read
Karthika RajmohanKarthika Rajmohan
Consultations

IFF’s submission to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of India’s 4th periodic review

This post summarises IFF’s submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, where we deeply analyse the state of privacy, dignity, free speech, and other constitutional guarantees and its judicial interpretations between 2019 and 2024.
07 June, 2024
7 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma & Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
Digital Competition Bill

Summary of IFF’s submission on the draft Digital Competition Bill

IFF submission on the draft Digital Competition Bill, 2024 on May 15, 2024 focusses on four broad areas of concern: friction in the consultation process; inadequacies of the data protection law; potential regulatory overlap with existing and upcoming legislations; and proposed regulatory approach.
20 May, 2024
6 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
Health Data

IFF submits comments on WHO’s draft principles on genome data access, use and benefit sharing

IFF submitted its comments on the Draft Principles for Human Genome Data Access, Use and Sharing, 2024 released by the World Health Organisation and highlighted some concerns pertaining to use and sharing of human genome data.
13 May, 2024
11 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma & Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka
dark patterns

Let there be light: our submissions on the Consumer Affairs Ministry's draft Dark Patterns Guidelines

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs invited comments on their draft guidelines to regulate and penalise dark patterns online. In our submissions, we make a case for establishing clear regulatory jurisdiction, addressing privacy concerns, and continually updating the scope of the guidelines.
10 October, 2023
6 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
OTT

Shooting down bad ideas: Our response to TRAI’s consultation paper on OTT Regulation and Selective Banning

TRAI released a consultation paper on OTT regulation and selective banning. In our response, we expressed our view against the licensing and registration as well as selective banning of OTT communication services. See the post to read our detailed comments.
30 August, 2023
5 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre
TRAI

Climb off the mandatory activation TRAIn

In this post, we analyse the 40 comments submitted in response to TRAI's consultation paper titled ‘Consultation Paper on Introduction of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) in Telecommunication Networks’, highlighting privacy concerns, especially in the absence of a data protection law.
28 March, 2023
6 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Prateek WaghrePrateek Waghre

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