INTERNET FREEDOM FOUNDATION WHO WE ARE? Indias first homegrown - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

INTERNET FREEDOM FOUNDATION

• People centred: IFF traces its origin to the SaveTheInternet.in campaign. We are
• riented towards bridging the gap between public policy and the public.
• People funded: We are funded wholly by Indian sources through a membership model
• n 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.

WHO WE ARE?

India’s first homegrown digital rights advocacy group that will have global impact.

CENSORSHIP AND FREE EXPRESSION

IMPACT AREAS

Our work is at the heart of demands of technology users & creators in India.

ONLINE PRIVACY AND ENCRYPTION

NET NEUTRALITY

INNOVATION

Our actions and institutional impact in the past year

CAUSE, EFFECT AND IMPACT

GOVERNMENT LITIGATION WORK PARLIAMENTARY WORK

• PDP Bill: Primer to encourage

public participation on Personal Data Protection Bill 2019

• Inputs on Union Budget
• Inputs on National

Cybersecurity Policy where we support encryption

• Indian Privacy Code, 2018: Privacy

Code filed as Private Member's Bill by

• Dr. Ravikumar
• Science and Technology Standing

Committee on DNA Bill deposed by Apar Gupta.

• WhatsApp - NSO Pegasus case: IT

Standing Committee on WhatsApp NSO Pegasus hacking deposed by Vrinda Bhandari

• Kashmir Communication Shutdown

(Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India)

• Surveillance Reform PIL (IFF v. UoI)
• Google v. CNIL France case

“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.

IFF REMAINS EFFECTIVE EVEN DURING THE LOCKDOWN

Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future India mention

Edward Snowden's tweet on Aug 24, 2019

We get the people going...

IFF STEPS IN

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.

VOLUNTEER GROUPS

DIGITAL RIGHTS ORGANISATION

OUR CAMPAIGNS

Our public campaigns to promote online freedom are central to our work.

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

• ver 16,000 signatures.

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 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.

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.

OUR STAFF

Anushka Jain

Transparency & RTI Fellow

Farkhanda Zahoor

Communications & Fundraising Associate

Apar Gupta

Executive Director

Shivani Singh

Community & Organisational Manager

Devdutta Mukhopadhyay

Associate Counsel (Litigation)

Dharmendra Kumar Rai

Office Manager

THE TRUSTEES

Aravind Ravi Sulekha

A technologist and entrepreneur.

Raman Jit Singh Chima

A globally known expert

• n Internet policy and institutional

processes.

Karthik Balakrishnan

A technologist and online activist.

Rachita Taneja

An experienced online campaigner and activist.

Thank you!

Please visit us at:
 www.internetfreedom.in