SFLC.in

SFLC.in (Software Freedom Law Center, India) is a donor-supported legal services organisation that has united lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, business professionals, students and citizens to protect freedom in the digital world since 2010. It is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, operating all over India, and holds special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). Its work is carried out through education, original research, policy engagement and the provision of free legal services, with the aim of helping Indian policymakers make informed and just decisions on technology and promoting innovation and open access to knowledge.

SFLC.in describes itself as a donor-supported legal services organisation that has united lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, business professionals, students and citizens to protect freedom in the digital world since 2010. It is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, operating all over India, and holds special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). Its stated objective is to help Indian policymakers make informed and just decisions in the use and adoption of technology, and to promote innovation and open access to knowledge by helping developers make Free and Open Source Software and by protecting the privacy and civil liberties of citizens in the digital world, achieved through education, original research, policy engagement and provision of free legal services. It states that over the years it has consistently advocated for technology policy aligned with the Constitution of India and serving the greater public interest, and that this has sometimes placed it at odds with powerful interests, citing its opposition to software patents, its defence of free speech and privacy in the digital space, its principled opposition to the dilution of net neutrality, and its resistance against Freebasics/Internet.org.

A donor-supported legal services organisation presenting the rights of Indian citizens in technology policy discussions, advocating technology policy aligned with the Constitution of India and the greater public interest.

• Digital Defenders Network (DDN)

  Envisioned as a pan-Indian community of lawyers ('Digital Defenders') collaborating to defend digital freedoms for all citizens.

• Free Speech Tracker

  A crowd-sourced research project developed by SFLC.in to track instances of free speech violations and the laws governing free speech in India.

1. 1Software Freedom Law Center, Indiasflc.in
2. 2About Us – Software Freedom Law Center, Indiasflc.in
3. 3Impact of New DPDP Rules for MSMEs & Startups: SFLC.in to Storyboard18 – Software Freedom Law Center, Indiasflc.in
4. 4SFLC.inwikidata.org