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6 Apr 2020
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CIS Comments on 'Pre Draft' of the Report of the UN Open Ended Working GroupCIS submitted comments on the 'pre draft' report of the United Nations Open Ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security.
31 Mar 2020
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CIS Comments on NODE Consultation PaperCIS submitted comments in response to MEITY's Consultation Paper on National Open Digital Ecosystems (NODEs) The comments were authored by Aman Nair, Elonnai Hickok and Arindrajit Basu with inputs from Gurshabad Grover.
11 Mar 2020
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Announcing In Flux, the CIS PodcastIn Flux is a podcast on technology, law, policy, politics and more brought to you by the Centre for Internet and Society, India. Our episodes will explore questions around contemporary issues, and provide multidisciplinary perspectives, …
9 Mar 2020
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Indian Wikimedian Communities and the Gender Gap - A Space of Change, Negotiation, and GrowthThis blog post covers key findings of the Wikipedia Gender Gap research completed by Ting-Yi Chang in April 2018. The paper was titled “Examining Female Editors’ Identity and Agency Negotiation Process within Indian Wikimedia Projects and …
5 Mar 2020
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RBI Ban on Cryptocurrencies not backed by any data or statisticsIn March 2020, the Supreme Court of India quashed the RBI order passed in 2018 that banned financial services firms from trading in virtual currency or cryptocurrency. Keeping this policy window in mind, the Centre for Internet & Society …
5 Mar 2020
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Cryptocurrency Regulation in India – A brief historyIn March 2020, the Supreme Court of India quashed the RBI order passed in 2018 that banned financial services firms from trading in virtual currency or cryptocurrency. Keeping this policy window in mind, the Centre for Internet & Society …
5 Mar 2020
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A Compilation of Research on the PDP BillThe most recent step in India’s initiative to create an effective and comprehensive Data Protection regime was the call for comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which closed last month. Leading up to the comments, CIS has …
5 Mar 2020
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‘Future of Work’ in India’s IT/IT-es SectorThe Centre for Internet and Society has recently undertaken research into the impact of Industry 4.0 on work in India. Industry 4.0, for the purposes of the research, is conceptualised as the technical integration of cyber physical systems …
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Counter-comments to Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net NeutralityThis submission presents counter-comments by CIS in response to the consultation paper floated by the TRAI on the topic of ‘Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality’. These counter-comments take …
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19 Feb 2020
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How the Data Protection Bill Regulates Social Media PlatformsThe Bill gives the Centre the power to designate certain social media intermediaries as significant data fiduciaries.
17 Feb 2020
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Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder ConsultationOn November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker unions, domestic workers, company representatives, and civil society researchers …
14 Feb 2020
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Law and Politics of Global Governance Course OutlineArindrajit Basu taught a course on various prospects and challenges of global governance at NUJS, including the geo-politics of emerging technologies.
14 Feb 2020
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Content takedown and users' rightsAfter Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable …
13 Feb 2020
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Announcing Selected Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and SurveillanceWe published a Call for Researchers on January 10, 2020, to invite applications from researchers interested in writing a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that people of LGBTHIAQ+ and gender non-conforming …
12 Feb 2020
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Comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.
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Roundtable on India’s Gig-work EconomyWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
17 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020
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Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav - Power Chronography of Food-Delivery WorkWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
13 Jan 2020
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Comments to National Security Council on National Cybersecurity Strategy 2020CIS submitted brief comments to the National Security Council on the National Cybersecurity Strategy within the 5000 character limit provided. CIS will continue producing outputs building on these ideas.