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...

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...

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'.”...

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...

May 27, 2004 Last Updated: May 31, 2004 Contents: - Introduction - Enumeration Results - Methodology & Limitations Introduction India is among a handful of democratic states that has recently implemented some form of nationwide Internet content filtering regulation. In September 2003, the...