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26 Oct 2018
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Discrimination in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceThe dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated by both government and industry across the globe. AI offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance …
26 Oct 2018
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Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for CyberspaceThis paper was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.
21 Oct 2018
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South India Copyright WorkshopA workshop on Copyright was organized by CIS-A2K at Hotel Bhagini Icon in Bengaluru from 19th to 21st October 2018. Seventeen members from 5 language communities (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu) participated in the workshop. …
18 Oct 2018
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377 Bites the Dust: Unpacking the long and winding road to the judicial decriminalization of homosexuality in IndiaAn informal case comment tracing the journey and assessing the societal implications the recent 377 (Navtej Johar v Union of India).
16 Oct 2018
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Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked SurveillanceIn recent times, there has been a rash of policies and regulations that propose that the data that Indian entities handle be physically stored on servers in India, in some cases exclusively. In other cases, only a copy needs to be stored.
11 Oct 2018
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Comments to The Personal Data Protection BillCIS has conducted extensive research into the areas privacy, data protection, data security, and was also a member of the Committee of Experts constituted under Justice A P Shah. CIS has also been cited multiple times in the Report of the …
6 Oct 2018
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Call for Position - Programme Officer (Communication) - Access to KnowledgeWe are inviting applications for the position of a Programme Officer (Communication) to join the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Centre for Internet and Society. Please find below the description of the position, the eligibility …
4 Oct 2018
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Policies & the Public InterestThe public interest calls for real reforms for equitable growth.
1 Oct 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for SessionsWho makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate …
30 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like ThatIndividual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
27 Sep 2018
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Cross-Border Data Sharing and India: A study in Processes, Content and CapacityA majority of criminal investigations in the modern era necessitate law enforcement access to electronic evidence stored extra-territorially. The conventional methods of compelling the presentation of evidence available for investigative …
24 Sep 2018
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A trust deficit between advertisers and publishers is leading to fake newsTransparency regulations is need of the hour. And urgently for election and political advertising. What do the ads look like? Who paid for them? Who was the target? How many people saw these advertisements? How many times? Transparency …
23 Sep 2018
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The Right Words for LoveQueer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
23 Sep 2018
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Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate courseStudents of Christ (Deemed to be University) enrolled themselves for the third Wikipedia certificate course for the academic year of 2018-19, to understand the usage of Wikimedia projects.
19 Sep 2018
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Wikisource Handbook for Indian CommunitiesWikisource is one of the trending Wikimedia projects. Many new editors and new books to Indic language Wikisource's get added over a period of time. However, new editors as well as existing editors face numerous problems while working with …
14 Sep 2018
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Artificial Intelligence in the Governance Sector in IndiaThe use of Artificial Intelligence has the potential to ameliorate several existing structural inefficiencies in the discharge of governmental functions. Our research indicates that the deployment of this technology across sub-sectors is …
12 Sep 2018
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India’s post-truth societyThe proliferation of lies and manipulative content supplies an ever-willing state a pretext to step up surveillance.
9 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: #MemeTooAn old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
6 Sep 2018
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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected AbstractsIn response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. …
5 Sep 2018
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AI in India: A Policy Agenda4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Playing GodGoogle’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Double SpeakAadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
3 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018
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The Srikrishna Committee Data Protection Bill and Artificial Intelligence in IndiaArtificial Intelligence in many ways is in direct conflict with traditional data protection principles and requirements including consent, purpose limitation, data minimization, retention and deletion, accountability, and transparency.
27 Aug 2018
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Consumer Care Society: Silver Jubilee Year CelebrationsArindrajit Basu delivered a talk the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Consumer Care Society (CCS )on 'Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet.
22 Aug 2018
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మిసిమి పత్రిక గ్రంథాలయంలో తెలుగు వికీపీడియన్ల కార్యక్రమంతెలుగు నాట లలిత కళలపై రసజ్ఞత పెంపొందించేందుకు దశాబ్దాలుగా పనిచేస్తున్న పత్రికల్లో మిసిమి విశిష్టమైనది.
22 Aug 2018
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DNA ‘Evidence’: Only Opinion, Not Science, And Definitely Not Proof Of Crime!On August 9, 2018, the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2018 was introduced in the Lok Sabha and we commented on some key aspects of it earlier.
22 Aug 2018
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An Analysis of the CLOUD Act and Implications for IndiaIndia houses the second largest population in the world at approximately 1.35 billion individuals. In such a diverse and dense context, law enforcement could be a challenging job.
21 Aug 2018
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ICANN response to DIDP #31 on diversityThis post summarizes the response of ICANN to our inquiry on the diversity of their employees.