Pranesh Prakash

I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law. Comments welcome. Do share widely! PDF: ippr.in/index.php/ippr… HTML: pranesh.in/scholarly/arti… #FoE #censorship #IHRL

@pranesh @ni5arga The vendor should have been permanently blacklisted. x.com/kingslyj/statu…

So @ni5arga is essentially providing free security consulting to govt and its vendor. Pretty sad how bad things are.

@Kaju_Nut @OfficialSBICare No complaints page... No complaints.

Try to complain to SBI. The complaints page itself does not work! Now how to complain about the complaints page @OfficialSBICare? Tried for 2 days, same issue.

#DataBreach #India. Rather sorry state of affairs.

The two most dangerous occupations in #Lebanon right now: journalist and paramedic / medical aid volunteer. Both, according to Sky News, are professions that #Israel is targetting in its attacks. This is #terrorism, plain and simple. #warcrimes

Why are medics being killed in Lebanon? Since the ceasefire was agreed on April 17th nearly 700 people have been killed. And out of those, 20 have been medics. Sky’s @AlexCrawfordSky reports trib.al/RR9UhhH

This isn't going to make an iota of a difference to those fools who called him "Pakistani" and "anti-national".

#poverty #India #econ #stats

Article 21 read with Article 99A 😂 x.com/SandeepParekh/…

Better yet, they should argue that access to the Gymkhana is part of Article 21. Given how eager the courts are to expand "the right to life and personal liberty" for the elite, there's a non-zero chance that such an argument might even be upheld.

@pranesh Right to life means, right to a meaningful relaxed life with heavy discount on alcohol meaning Delhi Gymkhana mode of Life.

This is utterly ridiculous clickbait. What actually happened: the Pope released a 235-page encyclical saying AI needs to be "disarmed" and should NOT be used to "secure geopolitical or commercial dominance" (#Artificial_intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vatican.va/content/leo-xi…). Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei explicitly advocates using AI to establish "robust military superiority" of the West and publicly dreams of an "eternal 1991" of Western dominance enabled by AI (darioamodei.com/essay/machines…). Anthropic also has $200M in Pentagon contracts in partnership with Palantir, and Claude AI was notably used by the Pentagon to kidnap Maduro (axios.com/2026/02/13/ant…). In other words, Anthropic is doing the exact opposite of what the Pope advocates. Furthermore, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah - who wasn't there as a partner but as one of six speakers alongside cardinals and theologians - told the room that AI decisions "should not be left to people in the industry," and that even well-intentioned researchers operate inside incentives that "can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing" (aleteia.org/2026/05/25/wha…) So he too is saying, essentially, "don't trust us on finding the way." Which is the exact opposite of "working together to find the way for humanity." In other words this is the perfect example of taking a quote out of context to make it say the exact opposite of what was meant. The Pope said AI companies like Anthropic are going the wrong way. Anthropic's own co-founder said "don't let us define the way." Disclose.tv says: "they're announcing they're working together to find the way for humanity." 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

"Google is cannabalizing the Web." theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/…

Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank 972mag.com/microsoft-8200…

#genAI #AIRegulation #AI

@AP The current pope thinks that slavery is wrong despite it being supported by the Bible, by St. Paul, by Thomas Aquinas, or Pope Pius IX? Enough with this woke nonsense!

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

Journalists aren't diplomats. If anything, they're the anti-diplomats: asking tough questions that diplomats cannot. It's bizarre to think that journalists ought to be diplomatic. #PressFreedom #FoE #SelfCensorship

@prateekwaghre How are you able to write such long tweets without a blue tick? Or have you paid and then used some setting to remove the display of the blue tick?

I'm still thinking this through, but yes, I agree with you on data protection not necessarily being a sufficient frame/guardrail in this case. I was making a limited observation on MeitY apparently wanting to step in to look at this from the perspective of privacy, and was wondering what regulatory framework they would invoke, because the DPDPA, in my mind, doesn't address this, at least, not in a broad enough way. If the person booking the service "consents," is everything else kosher then in this scenario? That's not automatically clear to me.

Not clear to me that the DPDPA can really do much here* as long as companies find a narrow way to say they’re complying? Which, while compliance-heavy, is distinct from actually protecting privacy. Unless they say this specific use-case is “unlawful,” for which there need to be clearly defined criteria. * (or pretty much anywhere: see my past ranting)

F-Droid, the open-source Android app store, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat" to alternative app distribution. The EFF warns it creates a pathway to censorship. keepandroidopen.org #KeepAndroidOpen

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/evalua… On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.