Notices by Software Freedom Law Center (sflc@mastodon.social)

“If you spent $22 billion acquiring something, sooner or later, #shareholders want you to #monetize that #asset." @MishiChoudhary speaking to @BuzzFeedNews @pranavdixit on #WhatsApp #WhatsappPrivacy #Facebook #TechThursday #privacy #mydata #BigTech

📰https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-privacy-policy-changes

As #Whatsapp clarifies its #PrivacyPolicy, @MishiChoudhary says it comes w/ "forced consent". #Regulators must not allow such practices w/o clear #legal basis for change of purpose to collect #data and meaningful #consent. #privacymatters #Facebook

Read: https://yourstory.com/2021/01/whatsapp-policy-update-affect-privacy-messages-facebook

As #surveillance grows around the world, 3 #Government projects are being challenged in #India as they seek to spy on #citizens. @SFLCin #CPIL #surveillance #privacy #digitalfreedom #ThursdayThoughts

READ:
https://www.medianama.com/2020/12/223-natgrid-netra-cms-challenge-delhi-hc/

The #EU has charged #Amazon with #antitrust violations, joining #Google, #Apple & #Facebook who were charged last month. Is it enough? #antitrust #bigdata #digitaleconomy #tech #TechNews #TechTuesday #privacy #cyberlaw

📰READ:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/amazon-eu-antitrust.html

"The #govt is vigorously pushing the adoption of the app through ... various coercive means, it needs to be very transparent about the whole process related to #datacollection and processing," @SFLCin @PrasanthTweets on #India's #AarogyaSetuApp issues.

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/aarogya-setu-app-govt-evasive-answers-accountability-data-safety/story/420214.html

"We ought to decentralize the #data...not store it in great big heaps where it is very easy for totalitarian #governments and others to go after it." - Eben Moglen's 4/4 talk "@snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #tech #surveillance #privacy

📺WATCH:
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/snowden/PartIV.webm

"Anonymity of #reading is the central, fundamental guarantor of #freedom of the mind. Without it ... there is no #freedom ... there is literally slavery." - Eben Moglen's 3/4 talk "#Snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #thursdayvibes #privacy

📺WATCH:
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/snowden/SnowdenAndTheFuture-PartIII.webm

Companies are now looking to target ads by #tracking your #phone's movements. @sidneyfussell writes for @verge #technews #TechTuesday #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #mydata #nowyouknow

https://www.wired.com/story/companies-track-phones-movements-target-ads/

"365 days of no to slow #Internet in #Digital India is an unjustified government interference with basic rights of a population." @MishiChoudhary on @Bbcworld @bbcnews @Gaamuk #JammuAndKashmir #digitaldefenders #netshutdown #ThursdayThoughts

📰 READ:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53637125

"Unless we are vigilant now, even as we are put under so much additional strain by the pandemic. . .we shall live also through the death of freedom."

Check out Mishi Choudhary & Eben Moglen's essay in the @timesofindia on #FacialRecognition

READ:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/peril-of-face-recognition-tech-facing-the-end-of-freedom-one-face-at-a-time-supreme-court-must-intervene/

Check out Mishi Choudhary's Q&A session with @timesofindia on India's Aarogya Setu app #COVID19 #tech #ContactTracing #privacy

READ:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/transparency-and-respect-for-privacy-are-essential-to-build-trust-which-is-totally-absent-from-aarogya-setu-process/

When #facialrecognition moves into a new front, is it #protection or an invasion of privacy? #ThursdayThoughts #privacy #dataprotection #TechnologyNews

What do you think? 📰

Details:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html

India's Information Technology Act is designed to make it hard for states to shutdown the internet. But #NetShutdowns happen anyway. How?

Mishi Choudhary explains: “What the states started doing is use the Police Power, a very different statute..."

READ: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/analysis/great-disconnect/

The court declared that the ‘Right to Internet Access’ is a fundamental right. This is a major victory for India and brings it a step closer to the end of #NetShutdowns.

SFLCin leads the crusade against #NetShutdowns in India. Check out their research here: https://www.internetshutdowns.in/

NEWS: The Kerala High Court ruled that the right to access the Internet is a fundamental right under India's Constitution! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Congrats to our sister SFLCin on contributing to this win! SFLCin previously filed a counter-affidavit to make the case for this ruling.

Details: https://sflc.in/kerala-high-court-declares-right-access-internet-fundamental-right

SAVE THE DATE: Our annual fall conference is around the corner!

SFLC's 15th Anniversary Fall Conference will take place on Friday, November 1st, 2019 at Columbia Law School.

Our program will be published soon!

Details here: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/sep/06/conference-invite/

Eben Moglen was interview for an NPR segment about the
Boeing 737 Max crashes.

Here's a preview: "If we in the 21st century still believe in human autonomy, then we need to put that value into the software that runs our world.”

READ: http://softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/mar/22/npr-boeing/

In an editorial for Times of India, Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary set out an ambitious but achievable vision for Digital India.

READ: "Beat digital colonialism – What Digital India should mean: A tech policy for the Indian future"
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/beat-digital-colonialism-what-digital-india-should-mean-a-tech-policy-for-the-indian-future/