Committee to Protect Bloggers

Google has been ordered to unmask the identity of an anonymous blogger in India in a defamation suit by a Gremach Infrastructure Equipment and Projects Ltd. 
In their suit Gremach states that the blogger has been on a ‘hate campaign’ and wants Google to unmask the blogger going by the name, ‘Toxic Writer’.  Google in turn […]

newindiress.com reports that India has blocked the blog of “People’s March,” a Maoist magazine, formerly located at www.peoplesmarch.com. It has moved to peoplesmarch.googlepages.com, where the following message appears.
We have moved. Till May 2006, we were maintaining a fairly healthy site www.peoplesmarch.com. But our service provider, was asked to block our website on 15th May 2006. […]

Nart Villeneuve reports that Google handed over information on one of the users of its Orkut social network to Indian police.

After a request from Indian Law Enforcement, Google handed over the IP address of an Orkut user. The Indian Law Enforcement asked the ISP Airtel for information about the “owner” of that IP and […]

Laxman Kailas, a user of the Google-owned social networking site Orkut, was arrested in the western Indian city of Pune on September 2. According to The Times of India:
A Bangalore-based computer engineer has landed in the police net after he allegedly uploaded a blasphemous matter about Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji on the social networking […]

According to Yiaal, via Slashdot:
Indian journalist Amit Varma reports that Mumbai’s police are requiring the city’s 500 Internet cafes to install keystroke loggers, which will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over to the government — nearly in realtime by the sound of it. Buy things online, and the underpaid Indian police […]