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INTERNET FREEDOM FOUNDATION

WHO WE ARE? India’s first homegrown digital rights advocacy group that will have global impact. ● People centred : IFF traces its origin to the SaveTheInternet.in campaign. We are oriented towards bridging the gap between public policy and the public. ● People funded : We are funded wholly by Indian sources through a membership model on a recurring basis. Over the long term, our model is effective, has legitimacy and is scalable. ● People power: Our interventions match the interest and engagement of online crowds with responsible, strategic institutional engagement. We are players who play to win.

IMPACT AREAS Our work is at the heart of demands of technology users & creators in India. CENSORSHIP AND FREE NET NEUTRALITY EXPRESSION ONLINE PRIVACY AND INNOVATION ENCRYPTION

CAUSE, EFFECT AND IMPACT Our actions and institutional impact in the past year PARLIAMENTARY WORK LITIGATION WORK GOVERNMENT ● Indian Privacy Code, 2018: Privacy ● Kashmir Communication Shutdown ● PDP Bill: Primer to encourage Code filed as Private Member's Bill by (Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India) public participation on Personal Dr. Ravikumar Data Protection Bill 2019 ● Surveillance Reform PIL (IFF v. UoI) ● Science and Technology Standing ● Inputs on Union Budget Committee on DNA Bill deposed by Apar Gupta. ● Google v. CNIL France case ● Inputs on National Cybersecurity Policy where ● WhatsApp - NSO Pegasus case: IT we support encryption Standing Committee on WhatsApp NSO Pegasus hacking deposed by Vrinda Bhandari

IFF REMAINS EFFECTIVE EVEN DURING THE LOCKDOWN “Privacy prescriptions for technology interventions on Covid-19 in India” - We developed a comprehensive working paper on COVID-19 and surveillance with emphasis on contact tracing. The paper unpacks the challenges with technological deployments and surveillance responses to COVID-19. It studies the emerging views on how to tackle this developing issue considering the world's prior experiences with triggers for creation of mass surveillance systems.

We get the people going... Edward Snowden's tweet on Aug 24, 2019 Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future India mention

THE GAP India needs an organization like the EFF in US and Open Rights Group in UK which combines expertise in technology policy with the ability to organize public campaigns, advocate to policymakers and, when necessary, go to the courts. DIGITAL RIGHTS VOLUNTEER GROUPS ORGANISATION IFF STEPS IN

OUR CAMPAIGNS Our public campaigns to promote online freedom are central to our work. SAVE THE INTERNET : The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015. SAVE OUR PRIVACY: SaveOurPrivacy is a public initiative to put forth a model draft law called the Indian Privacy Code, 2018. The mission is to make sure that India gets a data protection law that protects our fundamental right to privacy KEEP US ONLINE : KeepUsOnline petition was filed against the frequent shutdowns in the country, telling the government that Internet shutdowns are unnecessary, harmful, and have no place in a democracy. This petition received over 16,000 signatures.

WE ARE GROWING.. IFF is the right product-market fit. SOLID FIRST YEAR In 2020, IFF has grown to 240 members and over 1100 one time donations and 6 organisational donations. We successfully raised an amount of around Rs 50 lakhs this year. RECURRING DONORS Our real strength lies in our community of more than 300 volunteers and individual donors who have donated to us more than 1500 times over the past year. BEYOND MONEY (skills and time) We have a growing community of volunteers who help us on multiple fronts. This includes lawyers, technologists, designers as well as people who have experience in the tech-policy sector.

Shivani Singh Apar Gupta Community & Organisational Executive Director Manager OUR STAFF Farkhanda Zahoor Devdutta Mukhopadhyay Communications & Fundraising Associate Counsel (Litigation) Associate Dharmendra Kumar Rai Anushka Jain Transparency & RTI Fellow Office Manager

THE Rachita Taneja Raman Jit Singh Chima TRUSTEES A globally known expert An experienced online campaigner on Internet policy and institutional and activist. processes. Karthik Balakrishnan Aravind Ravi Sulekha A technologist and online activist. A technologist and entrepreneur.

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