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2024 Elections

#FreeAndFair: Late to the Party(s): How ECI dragged its feet in the 2024 General Election

The general elections to elect the 18th Lok Sabha witnessed the spread of communal content as well as deepfakes, cheapfakes, and other forms of edited media with misleading claims. The ECI’s response to this rapidly developing situation has been overwhelmingly delayed and inadequate.
18 June, 2024
7 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar & Shravani Nag LankaShravani Nag Lanka
FreeAndFair

What are you voting for?: A critical analysis of political party manifestos

This post aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all technology-related electoral guarantees in the 2024 manifestos of these 5 parties and assess if these guarantees implicate digital rights and freedoms. 
06 May, 2024
8 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
2024 Elections

#FreeAndFair: Launching IFF’s Election Website

As the country gears up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, we watch every technological development that may affect electoral integrity. Visit the IFF election website freeandfair.in to read about IFF’s actions and efforts. 
19 April, 2024
5 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
2024 Elections

Your personal data, their political campaign? Beneficiary politics and the lack of law

As the 2024 elections inch closer, we look into how political parties can access personal data of welfare scheme beneficiaries and other potential voters through indirect and often illicit means, to create voter profiles for targeted campaigning, and what the law has to say about it.
10 April, 2024
6 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma
2024 Elections

Press Release: Civil society organisations express urgent concerns over the integrity of the 2024 general elections to the Lok Sabha

11 civil society organisations wrote to the ECI, highlighting the role of technology in affecting electoral outcomes. The letter includes an urgent appeal to the ECI to uphold the integrity of the upcoming elections and hold political actors and digital platforms accountable to the voters. 
08 April, 2024
2 min read
Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
Digital Rights Manifesto

"Digital Nagriks" for a Free, Equal, and Inclusive Internet: Our demands from the incoming Union Government

We present a seven-point agenda for political parties running in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, demanding the incoming government to make the protection, preservation, and advancement of digital rights a top governance priority.
24 January, 2024
7 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma & Tejasi PanjiarTejasi Panjiar
elections

Why NIC’s proposed polling station surveillance during the 2024 elections is a terrible idea

It’s election year, and NIC is already planning on deploying FRT and drones at polling stations to surveil voters and “maintain law and order”. We write to NIC and ECI outlining why this is undemocratic, unconstitutional, and overall a terrible idea.
18 January, 2024
4 min read
Disha VermaDisha Verma
Digital Rights Manifesto

India's smartphone generation demands digital rights to be a governance priority

Ensuring that digital rights find reflection in the campaign priorities of all candidates in the general elections
24 February, 2019
3 min read
Joanne DCunhaJoanne DCunha

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