Intermediary Liability

The Intermediary Liability project of SFLC.in deals with laws, policies, current events and other issues relating to the responsibilities, rights, duties and obligations of big and small technology intermediaries such as facebook, instagram, whatsapp, google etc. and the way their policies in relation to content moderation (what content is to be kept, what content needs to be removed and what are the grounds which decide what content is to be removed etc.) affect common users. We advocate equality, non-discrimination, transparency, protection of freedom of speech of users and the protection of people (specially vulnerable groups) from harmful content among other elements, to ensure that the internet remains a free, open and transparent space for all users and the governments or private corporations do not unjustly interfere with the digital rights of internet users.

We regularly engage in discussions, events, advocacy and writing articles and detailed reports on issues which are of concern to the common public and we have tirelessly worked in this space to ensure the protection of digital rights of citizens for the past decade.

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Twitter, The Intermediary Guidelines Rules and the Safe Harbour Protection

Background The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (Hereinafter “IT…

Legal challenges to the traceability provision

Legal challenges to the traceability provision: What is happening in India? Round-up of what has…

What is the “Originator or Traceability” provision in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code), 2021

What is the “Originator or Traceability” provision in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital…

 Learning Call on Intermediary Guidelines Rules, 2021

SFLC.in is hosting a learning call on Monday, 8th March 2021 at 6:30PM IST to…

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ANALYSIS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (INTERMEDIARY GUIDELINES AND DIGITAL MEDIA ETHICS CODE) RULES, 2021 1….

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    LIST OF MAJOR TECH POLICY DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA – 2020   (YEAR LONG)…

Letter to the IT committee

SFLC.in has written to the Standing Committee on Information Technology chaired by Dr. Shashi Tharoor…

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Report from the panel discussion on “Reconciling State’s Interest With a Digital Life” Software Freedom…

Encryption

Roundtable on Encryption, September 3rd, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM On September 3rd, 2020, Software Freedom Law…

IL

On June 26, 2020, the Indian Internet Multi-Stakeholder Coalition (IMSC) along with the Global Network…

Stop Written on a traffice sign board

This paper is a legal analysis of five key cases on global take downs from…

the future of intermediary liability in India

This report is our third in the series on Intermediary Liability. The first two reports…