It seems they took their decision based on incorrect reporting of a security issue,” Kempf said.Īccording to him, the source of the company’s trouble is outlined in a report in April from the Symantec Threat Hunter team about a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group named Cicada or APT10. “No one from the government contacted us to explain anything. Indian security researcher Sunny Nehra said that when the ban first started, only one or two ISPs blocked the page but that number has slowly increased over the past few months. The Internet Freedom Foundation disputed those app prohibitions at the time, writing that “much of this has been done without adequate legal reasoning.” ‘An incorrect basis’įor months, VLC has complained about what it called an unfair ban on downloads of its video player in India, which company president Jean-Baptiste Kempf said appears to have started on February 13, and applied “on an incorrect basis.” The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had asked Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, Alibaba’s UC Browser, TikTok and others to provide responses to a list of questions about data privacy, which it ultimately deemed unsatisfactory. The government said the bans were tied to concerns about what level of access the Chinese government has to data collected by the apps and “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state and public order.” Singh tied the situation with VLC to the wider ban on 59 mobile apps in the country – including TikTok – which became permanent in January 2021 and came on the heels of deadly skirmishes with Chinese troops at the disputed Himalayan border, resulting in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. DoT transferred it to which then responded on July 14 that “No information is available ” (1/4) - Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) August 14, 2022 On June 07, 2022, we filed a Right to Information application with seeking information on the blocking of the website of VideoLANorg in India. “This is despite the Supreme Court in 2015 holding that a user subject to the blocking process must be provided a copy of the blocking order, as well as an opportunity to be heard,” he said. “Due to the Government’s reliance on Rule 16, it is unlikely that the Indian Government will provide a detailed explanation unless directed to do so by a court of law.” Singh added that the government is not required to provide a reason for banning because of a legal provision in a 2009 law, called Rule 16, which allows the government to claim an “obligation of confidentiality.” “We are optimistic that we may receive some more information from the government, though our past experience is that the Indian IT Ministry has not offered helpful disclosures at the first appellate stage,” he said. Tanmay Singh, senior litigation counsel at Internet Freedom Foundation, told The Record the group filed an appeal this month and is expecting a response within 30 days, as required by law. Neither ministry responded to The Record’s requests for comment. That request was transferred to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, which told the group in July that “no information is available.”
The rights organization said it requested the reason behind the blocking of videolanorg in India and whether the website owners were given a hearing before access was blocked.
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The group is an Indian digital liberties organization focused on free speech, digital surveillance, privacy and net neutrality. In June, the Internet Freedom Foundation filed an application for more information with the Department of Telecommunications.
Anyone know why has banned VLC Downloads in India? /lQubbyK0Yi- Gagandeep Sapra August 12, 2022
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