About Apar Gupta
Apar Gupta is a lawyer and writer on democracy and technology, and the Founder Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF). He has acted as a counsel in leading constitutional cases on freedom of speech and privacy. Apar was the co-founder of the SaveTheInternet.in, a grassroots campaign that mobilised over a million Indians and secured strong net neutrality safeguards, and since 2018, he has lead IFF where he pairs campaigns with policy advocacy and impact litigation on issues of digital access and coercion. He has assisted in drafting three distinct Private Member’s Bills introduced in the Lok Sabha also deposed before Parliamentary Committees of Information Technology; and, Science and Technology on topics of study including Net Neutrality, Internet Shutdowns, Online obscenity and the DNA Bill. In recognition of this work, Apar was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2019 and named by Rest of the World in its ROW100 for Global Tech’s Changemakers. Apar writes and speaks widely on law, technology and democratic governance and is globally cited as an expert by publications including Wired, MIT Tech Review, Financial Times and the Gaurdian.