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Country Profile: India
Background
India is the world’s second most populous nation, with a population of over one billion. India generally respects the right to free speech and the right to publish sensitive materials. A wide array of political, social, and economic beliefs is represented by...
New research from the OpenNet Initiative reveals accelerating restrictions on Internet content as Asian governments shift to next generation controls. These new techniques go beyond blocking access to websites and are more informal and fluid, implemented at edges of the network, and...
- Posted on 16/Jun/2009; tagged in Asia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Conflict and security filtering, India, Indonesia, Internet tools filtering, IP blocking, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Non-filtering content restrictions, North Korea, ONI, Political filtering, Publications, Singapore, Social filtering, South Korea, Surveillance, Thailand, Vietnam, Voluntary filtering -
According to reports in The Hindu, India’s Maharashtra government is revisiting legal options to censor Google Earth in the wake of the program’s alleged use in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Curbing the use of Google Earth...
- Posted on 12/Mar/2009; tagged in Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, ONI, Political filtering -
Many a DVD collector over the years has been disappointed upon learning that their rare DVD from Taiwan or France can't be played on their American DVD player. Just as DVD region codes limit viewing to a geographic area, the geofiltering...
- Posted on 03/Mar/2009; tagged in Asia, Filtering tech and software, Geolocation, India, Pakistan, Reverse filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada -
In early December 2008, an Indian court was convened to ban Google Earth amid suggestions that the online satellite imaging was used to aid terrorists in planning the November terror attacks in Mumbai. According to late January reports in the ...
- Posted on 08/Feb/2009; tagged in Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, ONI, Political filtering -
ONI Blog: India: Petition to block Google Earth
According to reports published in The Register and The Times of London, an Indian court has been called to ban Google Earth in response to intelligence indicating that the satellite imaging was used in planning November’s terrorist attack’s...
- Posted on 20/Dec/2008; tagged in Asia, Conflict and security filtering, India, Legislation, ONI, Political filtering -
ONI Blog: Blogs on Filtering (continued)
Two recent incidents point out the ever-present risk that "secure" communications are often only as secure as the provider of the communication service:
Nart on Google handing over the IP address of an Orkut user who posted allegedly criminal content to the...
- Posted on 14/Nov/2007; tagged in India, Surveillance -
On October 10, 2006, Indian media reported that a two-judge panel of the Bombay High Court has directed the state government of Maharashtra to issue notice to Google for “alleged spread of hatred about India by its social network service 'Orkut'.”...
ONI Blog: India Blocks Sites
Indian ISPs are as of July 13 blocking several Web sites, including Blogspot, Typepad, and Geocities. Several reports by bloggers seem to confirm that it is India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) that has requested Indian ISPs to...
In response to a Rediff.com report indicating that the Mumbai Police Commissioner's Office had ordered ISPs in India to block the website HinduUnity.org (because of inflammatory anti-Islamic material contained on the website) we connected to the web site in controversy through remote...
