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IFF’s submission to the UN Report on “Freedom of Expression and Elections in the Digital Age”

The submission highlights censorship, content moderation, regulatory developments, and recommendations to protect digital rights in India’s electoral process.

26 February, 2025

7 min read

Naman Kumar,

Gayatri Malhotra,

Injila Muslim Zaidi &

Shravani Nag Lanka

2024 Elections

#FreeAndFair: Late to the Party(s): How ECI dragged its feet in the 2024 General Election

The general elections to elect the 18th Lok Sabha witnessed the spread of communal content as well as deepfakes, cheapfakes, and other forms of edited media with misleading claims. The ECI’s response to this rapidly developing situation has been overwhelmingly delayed and inadequate.

18 June, 2024

7 min read

Tejasi Panjiar &

Shravani Nag Lanka

FreeAndFair

What are you voting for?: A critical analysis of political party manifestos

This post aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all technology-related electoral guarantees in the 2024 manifestos of these 5 parties and assess if these guarantees implicate digital rights and freedoms.

06 May, 2024

8 min read

Tejasi Panjiar

2024 Elections

#FreeAndFair: Launching IFF’s Election Website

As the country gears up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, we watch every technological development that may affect electoral integrity. Visit the IFF election website freeandfair.in to read about IFF’s actions and efforts.

19 April, 2024

5 min read

Tejasi Panjiar

Deepfakes

Read our Open Letter to Electoral Candidates & Parliamentary Representatives on the Impact of Deepfakes on Electoral Outcomes

With endorsement from civil society organisations and individuals, we wrote to electoral candidates, political parties, and parliamentarians, urging them to publicly declare that they will not use deepfake technologies to create deceptive or misleading synthetic content for the 2024 Elections.

26 February, 2024

3 min read

Disha Verma &

Tejasi Panjiar

Digital Rights Manifesto

"Digital Nagriks" for a Free, Equal, and Inclusive Internet: Our demands from the incoming Union Government

We present a seven-point agenda for political parties running in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, demanding the incoming government to make the protection, preservation, and advancement of digital rights a top governance priority.

24 January, 2024

7 min read

Disha Verma &

Tejasi Panjiar

elections

NIC withdraws polling station surveillance tender: A small win for voter rights #VoterPrivacyWatch

Following IFF's letter to the ECI raising concerns over NIC's tender for deploying drones and facial recognition technologies at polling stations in the 2024 elections, ECI directed NIC to withdraw the tender, noting risks to voter privacy.

22 January, 2024

3 min read

Disha Verma

elections

Why NIC’s proposed polling station surveillance during the 2024 elections is a terrible idea

It’s election year, and NIC is already planning on deploying FRT and drones at polling stations to surveil voters and “maintain law and order”. We write to NIC and ECI outlining why this is undemocratic, unconstitutional, and overall a terrible idea.

18 January, 2024

4 min read

Disha Verma

Social Media

#DoTheRightsThing: Meta’s HRIA for India

Gearing up for the 2024 general elections, we bring you #DoTheRightsThing. This series aims to assess the reporting on human rights impact undertaken by significant platforms—the first in line, Meta's 2023 annual Human Rights Report.

14 October, 2023

8 min read

Tejasi Panjiar &

Prateek Waghre