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We the People: Gun Rights : Throughline

Marc Piscotty/Getty Images Marc Piscotty/Getty Images The Second Amendment. In April 1938, an Oklahoma bank robber was arrested for carrying an unregistered sawed-off shotgun across state lines. The robber, Jack Miller, put forward a novel defense: that a law banning him from carrying that gun violated his Second Amendment rights. For most of U.S. history, […]

2024 Budget and Digital Rights: Data Protection Board and IndiaAI Mission get fresh allocation; funds for long-established schemes see reductions

tl;dr The Union Budget for 2024-2025 reveals an overall increase in funds allocation for MeitY, MHA, MIB, and DoT as compared to 2023-2024. The Budget allocated to MeitY has witnessed the highest increase among these ministries – 32.56% over last year’s – yet-to-be-formed Data Protection Board and the IndiaAI Mission gets funding for the first […]

IFF’s submission to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of India’s 4th periodic review

tl;dr India’s move towards large-scale digitalisation has necessitated a critical look at law and policy instruments governing the space—which commonly appear to be vague, arbitrary, exclusionary, or fail to place human rights at their core. New laws and digital interventions seem to share the lack of public consultations and stakeholder participation. A spike in public-private […]