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Peer-reviewed articles
- CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India On how internet service providers implement website blocking in India. Divyank Katira, Gurshabad Grover, Kushagra Singh, Varun Bansal / Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '23)
- Cyber law toolkit scenario: Internet blockage On whether internet shutdowns with extraterritorial effects violate international law. Gurshabad Grover, Arindrajit Basu / International Cyber Law in Practice toolkit
- The Ministry and the Trace: Subverting End-to-end Encryption A legal and technical analysis of how the 'traceability' provision in Indian regulations undermines communications privacy. Gurshabad Grover, Tanaya Rajwade, Divyank Katira / NUJS Law Review
- How India Censors the Web On the different techniques used by Internet service providers (ISPs) to censor websites, and the consistency of website blocklists across different ISPs in India. Kushagra Singh, Gurshabad Grover, Varun Bansal / 12th ACM Conference on Web Science
- Examining the constitutionality of the ban on broadcast of news by private FM and community radio stations On the regulations that prohibit radio channels from curating news. Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover, Rajashri Seal, Neil Trivedi / NLUD Journal of Legal Studies
Book chapters
- The infrastructure of censorship in Asia How governments and private companies collaborate on censorship. Gurshabad Grover / Corinne Cath (ed.), Eaten by the Internet, Meatspace Press
Research reports and policy briefs
- RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations On how protocol design decisions influence the exercise of human rights online. Gurshabad Grover, Niels ten Oever / IETF RFC Series
- Online Censorship: Perspectives From Content Creators and Comparative Law on Section 69A of the Information Technology Act On procedural rights in online blocking of content. Divyansha Sehgal, Gurshabad Grover / Pre-print on SSRN
- Online caste-hate speech: pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social media On online caste-hate speech and social media platforms' content moderation. Damni Kain, Shivangi Narayan, Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover / Centre for Internet and Society
- On the legality and constitutionality of the Intermediary Rules, 2021 Analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover, Raghav Ahooja, Pallavi Bedi and Divyank Katira / Centre for Internet and Society
- India Digital Freedom Series: Internet Shutdowns, Censorship and Surveillance A series of reports on digital rights and civic space in India, focusing on restrictive policies that threaten fundamental freedoms and public participation. Multiple authors / Centre for Internet and Society
- Investigating TLS blocking in India A study into Transport Layer Security (TLS)-based blocking by three popular Indian ISPs: ACT Fibernet, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. Simone Basso, Gurshabad Grover and Kushagra Singh / OONI
- Reliance Jio is using SNI inspection to block websites The most popular ISP in India is employing a deep packet inspection technique to block websites for its users. Gurshabad Grover, Kushagra Singh / Centre for Internet and Society
- Through the looking glass: Analysing transparency reports An analysis of companies' transparency reports for government requests for user data and content removal. Torsha Sarkar, Suhan S, Gurshabad Grover / Centre for Internet and Society
- Consolidation in the Internet Economy and the Evolution of the Internet Summary of a discussion on the impact of market consolidation on the economic and technical future of the Internet. Akriti Bopanna, Gurshabad Grover / Centre for Internet and Society
- Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF Taking the example of TLS 1.3 at the IETF, we show how technical standards have regulatory and policy implications. Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover, Sunil Abraham / Centre for Internet and Society
Policy comments and misc. submissions
- Comments on the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 Submission to the Ministry of Communications, India. Anunay Kulshrestha, Gurshabad Grover
- DNS over HTTPS and Trusted Recursive Resolver Submission to Mozilla's consultation. Gurshabad Grover, Divyank Katira / Centre for Internet and Society
- Surveillance Industry and Human Rights Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Akriti Bopanna, Shweta Mohandas, Martyna Kalvaityte / Centre for Internet and Society
- Response to the Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018 Submission to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India Gurshabad Grover, Elonnai Hickok, et al / Centre for Internet and Society
- Response to GCSC on Request for Consultation: Norm Package Singapore Submission to the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Elonnai Hickok / Centre for Internet and Society
- Response to TRAI Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-The-Top (OTT) Communication Services Submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Gurshabad Grover, Nikhil Srinath, Aayush Rathi / Centre for Internet and Society
- Comments on the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations Submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Sandeep Kumar, Torsha Sarkar, Swaraj Barooah, Gurshabad Grover / Centre for Internet and Society
- Comments on the Draft Digital Communications Policy Submission to the Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications, India. Anubha Sinha, Gurshabad Grover, Swaraj Barooah / Centre for Internet and Society
- Comments on the Draft National Policy on Official Statistics Submission to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India. Gurshabad Grover, Sandeep Kumar / Centre for Internet and Society