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Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
19 Nov 2012
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Will The International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) Impact Internet Governance? A Multistakeholder PerspectivePranesh Prakash made a presentation at the India Internet Governance Conference (IIGC) held at the FICCI, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi on October 4 and 5, 2012. The event was organised by the Ministry of Communications & …
19 Nov 2012
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Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray's DeathTwo girls have been arbitrarily and unlawfully arrested for making comments about the late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death. Pranesh Prakash explores the legal angles to the arrests.
16 Nov 2012
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Statement of Civil Society Members and Groups Participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories for this submission made to the ITU on November 16, 2012.
9 Nov 2012
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Q&A to the Report of the Group of Experts on PrivacyIn January 2012 Justice A.P. Shah formed a committee consisting of a group of experts to contribute to and create a report of recommendations for a privacy legislation in India. The committee met a total of seven times from January to …
5 Nov 2012
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Indian Government's Submission to ITUThe following is the text of the submission made by the Government of India to the World Conference of International Telecommunications, Dubai on November 3, 2012. This is the final version of a draft that was circulated earlier.
3 Nov 2012
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Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRsGiven below are the responses from the representatives of civil society in India (The Society for Knowledge Commons, Centre for Internet & Society, The Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and …
1 Nov 2012
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Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Proposals for the Future ITRs and Related ProcessesThe Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories of this submission which was sent in November 2012, in response to the International Telecommunication Union's call for public comments in relation to the revision of …
29 Oct 2012
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The Rules of EngagementWhy the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
29 Oct 2012
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Rethinking DNA Profiling in IndiaDNA profile databases can be useful tools in solving crime, but given that the DNA profile of a person can reveal very personal information about the individual, including medical history, family history and so on, a more comprehensive …
25 Oct 2012
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Privacy Perspectives on the 2012 -2013 Goa Beach Shack PolicyCCTVs in India are increasingly being employed by private organizations and the government in India as a way to increase security and prevent/ deter crime from taking place. When the government mandates the use of CCTV’s for this purpose, …
29 Sep 2012
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A Public Meeting on DNA Profiling Bill in DelhiOn September 27, 2012, the Centre for Internet and Society hosted a public talk at the Indian International Centre focused on the draft DNA Profiling Bill. Presenting at the meeting were international experts Dr. Helen Wallace, director of …
26 Sep 2012
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The Five Monkeys & Ice-cold WaterThe Indian government provides leadership, both domestically and internationally, when it comes to access to knowledge.
26 Sep 2012
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An Introduction to the Issues in Internet GovernanceThat the internet cannot be governed was a central conviction of the early architects of the internet. In many ways it proved true when a majority of nation-States were kept off interference with the functioning of the internet. However …
25 Sep 2012
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Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part IISnehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”).
2 Sep 2012
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SMS Block as Threat to Free SpeechIf you could text just one or two people in a day, who would you choose? Many of us have had to make this choice thanks to the order limiting us to five texts a day. Short Message Service (SMS) is not used primarily to send staccato …
31 Aug 2012
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India's Internet JamAs authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
26 Aug 2012
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To regulate Net intermediaries or not is the questionGiven the disruption to public order caused by the mass exodus of North-Eastern Indians from several cities, the government has had for the first time in many years, a legitimate case to crackdown on Internet intermediaries and their users.
25 Aug 2012
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What lurks beneath the NetworkThere is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown …
25 Aug 2012
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left BangaloreI woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space …
24 Aug 2012
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Censoring the Internet: A brief manualBlocking websites on the Internet should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the government of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice.
22 Aug 2012
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Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)Pranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
20 Aug 2012
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The Perils of 'Hactivism'Civil disobedience includes accepting the penalty for breaking the law. Untraceable hackers are far removed from this ethic.
17 Jul 2012
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Open letter to Hillary Clinton on Internet FreedomLast month I wrote an open letter to Hillary Clinton. It was based on a presentation I that I made during a panel discussion at a Google sponsored conference titled Internet at Liberty 2012 in Washington DC on May 24, 2012.
16 Jul 2012
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Constitutional Analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules, 2011Ujwala Uppaluri provides a constitutional analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules notified in April 2011, and examines its compatibility with Articles 14, 19, 21 of the Constitution of India.
13 Jul 2012
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Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful HackersIf there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated …
11 Jul 2012
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Overview and Concerns Regarding the Indian Draft DNA Profiling ActThe Indian Code of Criminal Procedure was amended in 2005 to enable the collection of a host of medical details from accused persons upon their arrest. Section 53 of the Cr.PC provides that upon arrest, an accused person may be subjected to …
10 Jul 2012
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Privacy Matters — Medical PrivacyOn June 30, 2012, Privacy India in partnership with the Indian Network for People living with HIV/AIDS, Centre for Internet & Society, IDRC, Society in Action Group, with support from London-based Privacy International, held a public …
29 Jun 2012
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Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’Digital Empowerment Foundation, Association for Progressive Communications, Department of Information Technology and National Internet Exchange of India came together to organize an event on "Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & …
28 Jun 2012
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How Facebook is Blatantly Abusing our Trust‘Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broken’ is not an adage Facebook seems to subscribe to. Nishant Shah's column on privacy and Facebook was published in First Post on June 27, 2012.
26 Jun 2012
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Securing e-GovernanceOn June 16, 2012, Privacy India in partnership with the Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, International Development Research Centre, Canada, Privacy International, UK and the Society in Action Group, Gurgaon organised a public …