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 cofounder of the SaveTheInternet.in, a grassroots campaign that mobilized over a million Indians and secured strong net neutrality safeguards, and since 2018, he has led 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 and 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.