The Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi (CCG) is grateful to the National Security Council Secretariat for this opportunity to make meaningful contributions to its mandate of formulating a futuristic National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (NCSS). In response to the Call for Comments CCG apart from… Read More

By Sangh Rakshita and Nidhi Singh The Puttaswamy judgement of 2017 reaffirmed the ‘Right to Privacy’ as a fundamental right in Indian Jurisprudence. Since then, it has been used as an important precedent in many cases, to emphasize upon the right to privacy as a fundamental right and… Read More

The 2017 judgement by a 9 judge bench in the case of Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs. Union of India successfully cemented the Right to Privacy for citizens under Article 21 of the Constitution. The judgement was a turning point in the debate on… Read More

In our last post we talked about the Huawei ban and the impact it has on India and our national security agenda. The Huawei proceedings are a culmination of a series of political oppositions between states which have a profound impact on many countries, including our own. While the Huawei incident… Read More

From the Aadhaar Amendment Bill introduced in parliament today to US’ cyberattacks against Iranian military installations and India’s soon-to-be-formulated cybersecurity strategy — presenting this week’s most important developments in law and tech. Data Protection [June 18] Government stands firm on e-commerce, data security, Times of India report.[June 18] Government executives,… Read More

By Gunjan Chawla Over two weeks after the ban on Huawei was imposed by the United States on suspicions of facilitating espionage on behalf of China, the newly appointed Minister of Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad acknowledged that there are ‘complex security concerns’ around the deployment of Huawei’s… Read More

The 2017 Union Budget introduced the concept of electoral bonds to facilitate political funding. It was introduced as a mean to bring about a ‘transparent funding mechanism in the political system’. The electoral bond Scheme was notified in January 2018, allowing persons who are citizens, as well… Read More

Recent developments in India’s space policy including Mission Shakti, India’s first anti-satellite weapon testing is indicative of the states growing concern into contemporary threats to the state; India is ranked among the 15 least cyber-secure countries in the world from the list of 60 countries. To this end,… Read More

By Gunjan Chawla (This piece first appeared on The Leaflet) As we approach the final phases of India’s election to the 17th Lok Sabha, national security has emerged as one of the most debated issues of the season. On the one hand, the ruling party has portrayed the… Read More

Varsha Rao Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been hauled up by many an authority for their role as conduits in the dissemination of ‘fake news’, including the United States Senate and India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections,… Read More