Author
Divyank Katira
13 items.
4 Apr 2024
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India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detectionWe analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a …
25 Jan 2024
5 Sep 2023
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Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) BlockingA new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
13 Apr 2023
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Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in SoftwareDividing and breaking up a software project into smaller modules with functionality that can be reused to build other software is an increasingly common practice in software development today. We examine our infrastructural dependence on …
14 Mar 2023
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CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in IndiaResults from a nation-wide empirical study on web censorship
22 Nov 2022
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CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India invited comments on the Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.
22 Mar 2022
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Response to MeitY's India Digital Ecosystem Architecture 2.0 Comment PeriodCIS has submitted a response to MeitY's India Digital Ecosystem Architecture 2.0 Comment Period
3 Aug 2021
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Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine CertificatesWe examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
12 Jul 2021
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The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End EncryptionA legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
21 Jun 2021
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On the legality and constitutionality of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021This note examines the legality and constitutionality of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The analysis is consistent with previous work carried out by CIS on issues of …
19 Jan 2021
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Response to Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment PeriodCIS has submitted a response to Mozilla's DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
27 Oct 2020
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Investigating Encrypted DNS Blocking in IndiaWe find that encrypted DNS protocols are not blocked in India and share our test methodology.
15 Jul 2020
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The State of Secure MessagingA look at the protections provided by and threats posed to secure communication online.