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  • How the internet first freed and then trapped Uighur Muslims in China

    How the internet first freed and then trapped Uighur Muslims in China

    Darren Byler, The Conversation
    · Sep 21, 2019 · 11:30 pm
  • Aadhaar Act amendments let private firms resume use of biometric ID, sustain arbitrary surveillance

    Aadhaar Act amendments let private firms resume use of biometric ID, sustain arbitrary surveillance

    Sruthisagar Yamunan
    · Jan 04, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Delhi’s move to collect Aadhaar, voter IDs of families of school students raises concerns

    Delhi’s move to collect Aadhaar, voter IDs of families of school students raises concerns

    Shreya Roy Chowdhury
    · Sep 13, 2018 · 10:30 am
  • Lynchings in India: A doctor explains the pathology of normalising extreme violence

    Lynchings in India: A doctor explains the pathology of normalising extreme violence

    Abhay Shukla
    · Sep 06, 2018 · 02:30 pm
  • Centre says it doesn’t have records of correspondence on proposed social media monitoring tool

    Centre says it doesn’t have records of correspondence on proposed social media monitoring tool

    Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
    · Aug 03, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • Aadhaar authority wants to monitor social media to identify “top detractors” and fix “sentiments”

    Aadhaar authority wants to monitor social media to identify “top detractors” and fix “sentiments”

    Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
    · Jul 28, 2018 · 09:00 am
  • Your Morning Fix: Supreme Court to hear PIL seeking ban on female genital mutilation

    Your Morning Fix: Supreme Court to hear PIL seeking ban on female genital mutilation

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 16, 2018 · 06:30 am
  • Memo to Shekhar Gupta: To understand Aadhaar’s threat to democracy, listen to Snoopgate tapes

    Memo to Shekhar Gupta: To understand Aadhaar’s threat to democracy, listen to Snoopgate tapes

    Girish Shahane
    · Jan 10, 2018 · 08:00 am
  • Supreme Court has every reason to strike down Aadhaar Act. Will it?

    Supreme Court has every reason to strike down Aadhaar Act. Will it?

    Abhishek Sudhir
    · May 02, 2017 · 06:30 am