IT Rules 2023: Fact-checking or censorship?
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 29
- 3 min
Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 - Concerns and Critique
Article 21 Trust and Rethink Aadhaar analysed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP) 2023 (now Act) and raised several concerns...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 26
- 4 min
Webinar on Cowin Data Leak in collaboration with RootConf
Cowin Leak - Why was this breach significant? On 12th June, several news reports started making rounds on social media about the possible...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 25
- 7 min
Parliament Track: Monsoon Session, 2023
A summary of some important questions raised in Parliament during the Monsoon Session in relation to the digital rights of citizens. At...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 25
- 3 min
On Artificial Intelligence
Essay in AINOWINSTITUTE titled: A New AI Lexicon: C is for Consent For Artificial Intelligence or AI to function properly, vast amount of...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 25
- 2 min
On privacy and surveillance
Writing for The Hindu, Prasanna S and Maansi Verma, Trustees at Article 21 Trust, argued that the notion that “Indians don’t care about...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 25
- 3 min
On Criminal Identification Bill, 2022
Image courtesy: LiveLaw Parliament has passed a Dangerous Law, 8 April 2022, Indian Express Writing for Indian Express, Praavita Kashyap,...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Sep 25
- 3 min
On Aadhaar and voter ID linking
On Aadhaar and Voter ID linking Op-ed in the Indian Express titled “The proposal to link Aadhaar with voter ID is unconstitutional”...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Jun 5
- 6 min
Facial recognition technology in Elections: certain risks outweigh uncertain benefits
India, in recent years, has been experimenting with Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). The technology is claimed to have been used for...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- May 10
- 7 min
Blog: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (Part 2)
In the first part of the blog, we traced the historical development surrounding the data protection regime in India and how the Supreme...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- May 8
- 2 min
On expansion of use of Aadhaar
The Aadhaar Rules, 2023: An attempt to nullify the Aadhaar Judgment of the Supreme Court: Writing for the Indian Express, Maansi Verma...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- May 8
- 4 min
Concerns with proposed changes in Aadhaar Rules enabling private sector use of Aadhaar
Article 21 Trust collaborated with Rethink Aadhaar, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) and Access Now to jointly submit comments on the...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Apr 25
- 9 min
Blog: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (Part 1)
On November 18, 2022, the latest draft of India’s proposed data protection law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (DPDP...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Apr 24
- 2 min
Telecommunication Bill, 2022: Is India heading towards surveillance state?
Article 21 Trust collaborated with members of various digital and human rights groups, civil society organisations such as Hasgeek,...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Apr 12
- 3 min
A new assault on free speech-Information and Technology (Amendment) Rules, 2023
On April 6, 2023, the Central Government notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Mar 9
- 3 min
One Vote Annual Conference
Article 21 Trust collaborated with One Vote Project and curated the One Vote Annual Conference on 25th January 2022.
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Roundtable on Rights Digitisation
Article 21 Trust collaborated with several civil society organisations to put together and participate in a Roundtable on Rights...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Aadhaar and Voter ID Linking
The Article 21 Trust joined the Rethink Aadhaar and other prominent citizens, including former civil servants, journalists, social...
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Syed Asif Ali Zaidi
- Dec 1, 2022
- 7 min
Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022
(Picture courtesy: The Leaflet) The Parliament of India passed the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022 which was notified on...
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praavita
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
Tech-enabled exclusion: Law, Poverty, Rights, and Covid19
The Covid19 pandemic has hit us hard but some of us are hit harder. The usually unseen, ignored, excluded sections of our populace were...
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