For the month of July 2022, IFF has filed 9 Right to Information (“RTI”) applications. In response to an RTI application on surveillance of sanitation workers in Chandigarh, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has shared that they have been using “human tracking watches” on field staff since August 1, 2020 and incur approximately Rs 17.5 lakhs per month on it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/transparency-report-july-2022/