ISSUES

Sat, 01/03/2025 - 16:12

Mozilla’s Data Policy Shift Sparks Outrage—How can Community-Driven Models Save the Open Web?

The Fall of a Privacy Icon Mozilla, once celebrated as a stalwart of user privacy and FOSS ideals, is facing fierce backlash after quietly updating its policy to claim a “nonexclusive, royalty-free,

Wed, 24/04/2019 - 13:37

NETNEUTRALITY: DEFEATING FACEBOOK'S FREEBASICS WITH

The incredible response to the TRAI consultations clearly indicates that the public of India is able and willing to engage in critical policy matters – and will not allow a vital resource (the

Fri, 01/02/2019 - 10:02

FSMI SUBMISSION ON DRAFT OF INTERMEDIARY GUIDELINES

In December 2018, the Ministy of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has come up with a 'Draft of Intermediary Guidelines 2018', a part of the IT Act, 2000. Subsequently, MeitY has called

Wed, 16/01/2019 - 21:32

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY

Y Kiran Chandra General Secretary, FSMI The months of November and December 2018 were abuzz with political discussions and discussions all over the social media very intensely in the states of

Thu, 18/05/2017 - 11:30

NSA'S HACKING TOOL AND WANNACRY RANSOMWARE

The world awoke today to the largest cyber security threat ever, with a ransomware wannacry holding hundreds of thousands computers hostage. More than 100 countries are infected by the ransomware,

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 19:48

NET NEUTRALITY UPHELD - PEOPLE'S VICTORY

Free Software Movement of India hails the decision taken by TRAI that disallows the service providers to offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content being

Tue, 03/05/2016 - 20:37

DAY AGAINST DRM

We as FSMI, strongly oppose inclusion of DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies and its attempt to control what a user can and can't do with the media and hardware you've purchased. Would you

Fri, 26/02/2016 - 18:31

NO TO 66A IN ANY FORM

The Free Software Movement of India notes with concern the proposal of the Union Government to bring back (albeit in a different form) the widely misused Section 66A of the IT Act that was struck

Thu, 17/12/2015 - 13:23

ALLOWING FREEBASICS, WHILE DESTROYING INTERNET.

On December 17, Facebook unleashed a massive campaign trying to win support for its Free Basics platform, which has been the subject of a lot of controversy.This is in the context of the consultation

Wed, 16/12/2015 - 17:39

PRESS STATEMENT ON ABEYANCE OF GUIDELINES FOR EXAMINATION OF COMPUTER RELATED INVENTIONS

The Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) welcomes the decision of the Patent Office, made vide its Order of December 14, 2015, to revoke the Guidelines for Patenting of Computer Related Inventions

Mon, 28/09/2015 - 21:35

BETRAYAL OF NET NEUTRALITY..? FACEBOOK SHOULD COME OUT CLEAN

Mark Zuckerberg has extended his support to Digital India and has facilitated people to express their support through Facebook with a special page http://fb.com/supportdigitalindia. However, the