एक अजीब सी मुश्किल । Kunwar Narayan poem recited  by Rajendra Gupta | Dhai Aakhar Prem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-1n2V83sok   Sep 15, 2023

“समय
पागलों की तरह भटकता रहता
कि कहीं कोई ऐसा मिल जाए
जिससे भरपूर नफ़रत करके
अपना जी हल्का कर लूँ
पर होता है इसका ठीक उलटा
कोई-न-कोई, कहीं-न-कहीं, कभी-न-कभी
ऐसा मिल जाता
जिससे प्यार किए बिना रह ही नहीं पाता”

- कुंवर नारायण
कविता पाठ - राजेंद्र गुप्ता

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Pranesh Prakash @pranesh Oct 3, 2023
Some tech advice for activists & journalists in India:
1. Do not use biometrics to unlock your phone/laptop. Use a strong passphrase.
2. Use full-disk encryption to encrypt the data on your device.
3. Know that you are under no obligation to share your passphrases w/ the police
4. Switch off your device before you hand it over to anyone else. (Don't put it on suspend; turn it off.)

I strongly believe press associations & media groups should be conducting workshops on security for journos. (PS, I'm available to consult on practical digital security.)

I was very careful with how I worded that (having argued against crypto-fantasists in the past). Most people, including lawyers I've come to realize, don't know that you are under no obligation to give up your password or to unlock your device for the police.
If you're an accused, then you have a *constitutional right against self-incrimination* under Art. 20(3). You cannot legally be required to reveal any potentially incriminating info to the police. This isn't being "above the law", it *is the law*. (This is also a right u/ IHRL.)

Pegasus is India’s Watergate moment https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/pegasus-is-indias-watergate-moment/article35434074.ece Adv Pranesh Prakash July 21, 2021 Intelligence gathering needs to be professionalised, parliamentary oversight introduced, and liberties and law protected

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.” Those words of Sen. Frank Church, who led one of two committees on intelligence and surveillance reform established in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, are just as relevant in India today given the revelations of extensive surveillance — it is unclear by whom, but signs point to the Indian government — by the use of spyware on people’s phones . While there is much to be said about the international regulation of the unaccountable sale of spyware by shadowy entities such as the NSO Group, it is equally, if not more important to ensure that surveillance in India is made accountable.

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/ 27th April 2023
The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership..The orders vary widely in scope and subject, but all involve a government asking ..  In one case from January, India’s information ministry ordered Twitter to take down all posts sharing footage from a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dozens of posts were removed, including one from a local member of parliament... The bulk of the recent requests come from countries that have recently passed restrictive speech laws — 

.. In July 2022, the company sued the Indian government over an order to restrict the visibility of specific tweets. After Musk’s takeover, however, Twitter complied with more than 100 block orders from the country, including those against journalists, foreign politicians, and the poet Rupi Kaur.

... Musk has made clear in interviews that his vision of free speech does not extend to legal requests. “We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” he said in a recent interview with the BBC. “If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we’ll comply with the laws.” 

India's New Internet Rules Are a Step Toward 'Digital Authoritarianism,' Activists Say. Here's What They Will Mean https://time.com/5946092/india-internet-rules-impact/ India’s new rules come at a time when tech platforms are facing threats of regulation by Western governments over content including hate speech, misinformation, and incitement to violence. But the Indian rules are more worrying, the open letter says, because they are part of a wider push toward “digital authoritarianism,” including Internet shutdowns and arrests of journalists. Although the Indian rules also contain useful provisions like mandating transparency in cases when user content has been removed