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7 April 2009

The Story Behind Vote Report India: Citizen-Powered Election Monitoring

Written by Gaurav Mishra · activism

Vote Report India is a collaborative citizen-powered election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections.

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28 February 2009

Shiv Sena's Orkut Campaign: The Limits to Freedom of Expression in an Intolerant India

Written by Gaurav Mishra · law

The Indian blogosphere is abuzz with discussions on freedom of expression after the Supreme Court refused to throw out Shiv Sena's defamation case against 19 year old computer science student Ajith D (TOI). However, the Indian blogosphere's reactions to the controversy are mostly based on reports on the incident in Indian media and the quality of this reporting has been very mediocre, with few details and little background information.

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1 February 2009

India: Blogger silenced

Written by Rezwan · Advocacy

Chyetanya Kunte is an Indian blogger living in the Netherlands. On 27th of November, 2008 during the terror attacks in Mumbai he wrote a blog post (now available through Google...

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22 May 2008

India: Google assists police in Orkut user's arrest

Written by John Kennedy · Advocacy

With the arrest of Orkut user Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid last weekend, Google has joined Yahoo! on the list of multinational American internet companies that have enabled foreign law enforcement authorities...

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3 October 2007

Facebook blocked in the United Arab Emirates?

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Iran, United Arab Emirates

According to Download Squad, access to the popular social networking website Facebook has been blocked in the United Arab Emirates. Some UAE internet users are confirming that the ban was...

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12 September 2007

Mumbai police to monitor cyber-cafes

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · India

In its war against terrorism, Mumbai's police is planning to install keystroke loggers in Mumbai's cyber cafes. According to Vijay Mukhi, President of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology:...

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