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15 Jul 2013
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India's centralised snooping system facing big delaysCentral Monitoring System lacks algorithms, database and data.
15 Jul 2013
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How the world’s largest democracy is preparing to snoop on its citizensMonitoring system will allow govt to snoop on voice calls, SMSes, and access Internet data.
15 Jul 2013
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An Interview of Vera FranzThis interview was conducted at the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities on June 26, 2013.
7 Jul 2013
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Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic StrategiesThe fourth annual conference in political economy was organized by the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam at the Hague from July 9 - 13, 2013.
7 Jul 2013
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dna exclusive: Geeks have a solution to digital surveillance in India: CryptographyWhile you were thinking of what next to post on Twitter, the government has stealthily put an ambitious surveillance programme in place that tracks your every move in the digital world — through voice calls, SMS and MMS, GPRS, fax …
1 Jul 2013
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WIPO reaches agreement on treaty for blindOfficials at the World Intellectual Property Organisation have reached an agreement to provide wider access to books for the visually impaired in different countries, a long-pending demand of the World Blind Union and activist groups.
1 Jul 2013
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Concerns over central snoopEyebrows have been raised at the Centre’s single-window system to intercept phone calls and internet exchanges — the desi version of the US’s surveillance programme, PRISM — that is expected to roll out this year-end.
1 Jul 2013
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Biometrics or bust? India's Identity CrisisMalavika Jayaram is speaking at an event organized by the Oxford Internet Institute on July 2, 2013. The talk will be held at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS.
30 Jun 2013
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In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the RadarPrism, the contentious U.S. data-collection surveillance program, has captured the world’s attention ever since whistle-blower Edward Snowden leaked details of global spying to the Guardian and Washington Post.
30 Jun 2013
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‘Miracle at Marrakesh’ to help visually impaired readThe treaty will make access to books for the visually impaired, blind and print disabled easier.
29 Jun 2013
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The Pervert in the Cubicle: Of Pornographers, Pirates and Terrorists: A Talk by Nishant ShahDr. Nishant Shah was a speaker at the 2013 Annenberg - Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute organized by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Programme for …
29 Jun 2013
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Issue of duplication of identities of users under control: NilekaniNandan Nilekani says UIDAI system almost completely accurate, duplication of identities virtually negligible.
29 Jun 2013
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Internet users enraged over US online spyingIndia is the fifth most tracked nation by American intelligence agencies.
27 Jun 2013
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Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reasonDon't mind us, we're just censoring your content for you...
27 Jun 2013
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A Treat for the BlindThe WIPO treaty will provide copyright exceptions on books making them available to blind people in formats they can use.
26 Jun 2013
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Govt goes after porn, makes ISPs ban sitesThe government has decided to put a blanket ban on several websites that allow users to share pornographic content.
22 Jun 2013
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Cyber experts suggest using open source software to protect privacyBig Brother is watching. With the Central Monitoring System (CMS) at home and PRISM from the US, millions of users worldwide have become vulnerable to online surveillance by state agencies without even realizing it. No surprise, several …
21 Jun 2013
20 Jun 2013
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Opportunities for TV White Spaces in India WorkshopShyam Ponappa, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society is participating in a workshop on TV White Space. The workshop is being organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the Royal …
20 Jun 2013
Blog post
Girls in ICT Day 2013 — Nirmita Narasimhan FelicitatedThe ITU-APT Foundation of India with support from CMAI - Association of India Communication and Infrastructure organized the "Girls in ICT Day" to pay tribute to the contribution of young women in ICT in India on May 7, 2013 at FICCI …
17 Jun 2013
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A Feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians on HMTVBased on the Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, HMTV (one of the leading Telugu News channels in Andhra Pradesh) has produced a half an hour feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians.
15 Jun 2013
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कैसे होती है इंटरनेट पर आपकी जासूसीभारत में बैठे आप कब, कहां, क्या लिख रहे हैं, किससे फोन पर क्या बात कर रहे हैं, अमेरिका में बैठे अधिकारी सब देख-सुन रहे हैं. कभी सोचा है कि कैसे हो रहा है यह सब? क्या आपकी कंप्यूटर स्क्रीन उनके कंप्यूटर पर भी खुली है?
15 Jun 2013
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Pranesh Prakash on the US snooping into Indian cyber spacePranesh Prakash, Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society, talks about the ramifications of US incursion into the privacy of Indians through cyber space. He says that Indian laws on privacy and free speech shall be applied to the …
15 Jun 2013
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Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and CriticismThe 2013 Session will take place in Johannesburg (South Africa) from June 22 to July 2, 2013. Nishant Shah is participating as a speaker. The event is organized by WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research.
13 Jun 2013
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Wiki Rahasya: Panel Discussion on Suvarna NewsDr. U.B.Pavanaja participated in a panel discussion around Wikipedia in general and about Kannada Wikipedia in specific. This was telecast by Suvarna News 24x7 (Kannada) TV channel on June 13, 2013.
10 Jun 2013
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Wikipedia Live Phone-in Programme on HMTVVishnu Vardhan took part in a one hour live phone-in programme on Wikipedia. This was telecasted in HMTV on June 1, 2013.
10 Jun 2013
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Indien: Umfangreiche Überwachung von Onlineaktivitäten, Telefonanrufen und TextnachrichtenThis blog post by Von Andrea Jonjic was published in a German website on June 10, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is quoted.
10 Jun 2013
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Govt mulls advisory on privacy issues related to Google, FacebookThe Government is set to harden its stand against foreign Internet firms in asking them to comply with Indian laws.
9 Jun 2013
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Facebook, Google deny spying accessThe CEOs of Facebook and Google on Saturday categorically denied that the US National Security Agency had "direct access" to their company servers for snooping on Gmail and Facebook users. But both acknowledged that the companies complied …
8 Jun 2013
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Internet firms deny existence of PRISMNothing is private anymore. According to a leak in the US, which revealed the wide reach of a mass surveillance programme by intelligence agencies, messages, posts, chats on your computer or phone are all vulnerable to interception, thanks …