internet Research Lab
The internet Research Lab (iRL) is a collective of technologists, legal scholars and researchers studying information and communication technology.
Projects
- DPI
Digital Public Infrastructure
Governance, openness, privacy and security of India's digital public infrastructures for identity, payments, credentials and data exchange.
- MAL
Malware Detection
Methods and tools to detect and analyse malware used against civil society, from commodity stalkerware to mercenary spyware, with a focus on mobile devices.
- GIG
Gig Work
How platform algorithms set pay, allocate tasks and shape working conditions for gig workers in India.
- NET
Network Security & Privacy
How the design of internet protocols creates avenues for government and corporate surveillance and censorship.
Updates
- DPI and the Homeless Workers Movement in Brazil: concrete possibilities for broader governance and popular participation (opens in a new tab) An essay by Alexandre Costa Barbosa on sustaining participatory mechanisms in DPI in Brazil.
- Actually existing DPIs as architectures of hegemony (opens in a new tab) An essay by Mila T. Samdub on how India's DPIs encode the distribution of power among the state, software companies, financial institutions and international actors.
- Digital public infrastructure and India's foreign policy (opens in a new tab) An essay by Arindrajit Basu on why India has made DPI the centrepiece of its diplomacy.
- Incorporating user agency in internet geolocation (opens in a new tab) At the IAB Workshop on IP Geolocation, we highlighted how IP geolocation violates privacy and needs to be phased out.
- iRL releases MVT-pi for device forensics (opens in a new tab) A script and guide to help set up Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) on Raspberry Pi devices for isolated forensics.
Latest from the blog
- Governance, openness and security of digital public infrastructure in India
- Forced volatility: earnings and incentives for gig work in quick commerce
- How internet applications geolocate users and why it needs a rethink
- Spyware detection and analysis: methodologies, limitations and future directions
- Privacy and security in digital public infrastructures