Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our Editors put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Israel spyware ‘Pegasus’ used to snoop on Indian activists, journalists, lawyers In a startling revelation, Facebook owned messaging app WhatsApp revealed that a spyware known as ‘Pegasus’ has been used to target…
Tag: Surveillance
Automated Facial Recognition System and The Right To Privacy: A Potential Mismatch
This post has been authored by Ritwik Sharma, a graduate of Amity Law School, Delhi and a practicing Advocate. In a quick read, he brings out the threat to privacy posed by the proposed Automated Facial Recognition System. On 28th June 2019, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released a Request for Proposal for…
GCHQ Mass Surveillance in Violation of Human Rights
For the first time since the Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s (IPT) establishment in 2000, a complaint against a UK intelligence agency has been upheld. The IPT, which oversees Britain’s secret agencies, is one of its most secretive and deferential courts. In a judgment last week, the IPT announced that the intelligence-sharing rules between the United States…
The Status of Electronic Surveillance Laws in India: An Overview (Part II)
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/6YSTmq) The following is the last in a series of two posts on the Electronic Surveillance laws in India, brought to us by Anurag Dasgupta, CNLU Patna. FEW OTHER STATUTES WHICH AIM AT REGULATING SURVEILLANCE IN INDIA
The Status of Electronic Surveillance Laws in India: An Overview (Part I)
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/6YSTmq) The following is the first in a series of two posts on the Electronic Surveillance laws in India, brought to us by Anurag Dasgupta, CNLU Patna. After the wave of liberalisation and globalisation; the demographics of various countries have changed, (for better), such change also includes within itself the technological impetus, which many…