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Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
3 Dec 2021
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Panel discussion on 'How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan' at Freedom Online ConferenceAmber Sinha participated as a panelist in a panel discussion on How to Avoid Digital ID Systems That Put People at Risk: Lessons from Afghanistan at the Freedom Online Conference yesterday.
28 Jun 2021
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Advanced biometric technologies and new market entries tackle fraud, chase digital ID billionsAmid forecasts of rapid growth and huge market potential, digital ID platforms launches by Techsign and Ping Identity, new services, features and even an investment fund have been launched.
26 Jun 2021
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No such rule, but many vaccination centres are insisting on Aadhaar as proofRadhika Radhakrishnan saw three words swimming before her as she inched closer to the hospital lobby.
26 Jun 2021
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Facebook launches India tech scholars programme for law studentsFacebook India on Friday announced a new initiative - the Facebook India Tech Scholars (FITS) programme - for law students in the country.
14 Jun 2021
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New rules leave social media users vulnerable: ExpertsThey analyse the implications of the government vs Twitter controversy on individual privacy
24 May 2021
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Women on Covid lists get lewd calls and messagesPerverts are eating into precious time in the middle of a pandemic and adding to the overall anxiety.
31 Dec 2020
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Twitter's India troubles show tough path ahead for digital platformsTwitter is in a standoff with Indian authorities over the government's new digital rules. Critics see the rules as an attempt to curb free speech, while others say more action is needed to hold tech giants accountable.
31 Dec 2020
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Insult to Kannada shows Google AI in a poor lightA Google search for ‘the ugliest language in India’ yielded ‘Kannada’ as the answer late last week, causing widespread outrage.
15 Dec 2019
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WhatsApp spy attack and afterBengaluru experts analyse the Pegasus snooping scandal, and provide advice on what you can do about the gaping holes in your mobile phone security.
15 Dec 2019
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Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment | UN Women + SEWAOn December 06, 2019, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi participated in a "Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Opportunities for Women in Informal Economy and in …
15 Dec 2019
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Power over privacy: New Personal Data Protection Bill fails to really protect the citizen’s right to privacyNikhil Pahwa throws light on the new personal data protection bill.
15 Dec 2019
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Outrage As Privileged IITians Use Tech To Spy On SweepersSome members of the housekeeping staff at IIT Ropar were put under round the clock surveillance during working hours for many days in February this year without their consent. IIT Ropar Director Prof S K Das has ordered a probe into the …
15 Dec 2019
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India’s record on internet shutdown gets bleaker; now blocked in 2 NE statesIndia reported over 100 internet shutdown in 2018, according to an annual study of Freedom House, a US-based non-profit research organization.
15 Dec 2019
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IETF106Gurshabad Grover participated at IETF106, which was held in Singapore 16-22 November, 2019.
5 Dec 2019
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Why having more CCTV cameras does not translate to crime preventionCan technology substitute addressing social, psychological, economic and other individual factors that largely lead to criminality? And what are the perils of over-reliance on technology to fight crime?
5 Dec 2019
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Cyber security tips for small businessesIt is important to have good cyber security practices, experts recommend.
28 Nov 2019
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Proposals to regulate social media run into multiple roadblocksThe Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Pegasus spyware attack on WhatsApp and the growing misuse of social media platforms to spread misinformation have made governments world over, including in India, realise the limitations of existing laws …
15 Nov 2019
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India facial recognition: How effective will it be?India is trying to build what could be the world's largest facial recognition system.
15 Nov 2019
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Cyber law experts asks why CERT-In removed advisory warning about WhatsApp vulnerabilityOn the missing web page note, CERT-In had provided a detailed explanation of the vulnerability, which could be exploited by an attacker by making a decoy voice call to a target.
15 Nov 2019
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Activists demand judicial probe into WhatsApp snoopingCalls for Parliamentary supervision over Government interception, legal hacking.
13 Nov 2019
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Startup Street: Google India's new top boss, the rise of Mastodon and keeping tabs on data complianceArindrajit Basu appeared on CNBC TV 18's Start Up Street discussing data compliance in the fall out of the Whatsapp-Pegasus incident.
13 Nov 2019
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Should online political advertising be regulated?Micro-targeting could have potentially damaging results in the context of political advertising.
13 Nov 2019
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Open Workshop on 'Digital Empire(s): Perspectives from Asia and AfricaMonish will be a part of a collaborative network which is organising an open workshop on 'Digital Empire(s): Perspectives from Asia and Africa', on December 4, 2019 at Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) Delhi.
13 Nov 2019
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Cultivating India's Cyber Defense StrategyArindrajit Basu, Pranav M. Bidare and Karan Saini organized a roundtable discussion on 'Cultivating India’s Cyber Defense Strategy' at the Indian Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi, on November 5, 2019. The event saw a total of 27 …
13 Nov 2019
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Advancing Cyberstability Final ReportCentre for Internet & Society (CIS) was acknowledged in the final report of the Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace
2 Nov 2019
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UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy Consultation on 'Privacy and Gender'Ambika Tandon was a speaker at the Consultation on Privacy and Gender organised by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy held at New York University, New York on October 30 - 31, 2019.
23 Oct 2019
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Trending Hate Against Muslims: Is Twitter Complicit?Twitter claimed that it had ‘prevented’ the Hashtag while it had not.
20 Oct 2019
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Roundtable Discussion on Intermediary LiabilityTanaya Rajwade participated in a roundtable discussion on intermediary liability organised by SFLC and the Dialogue in New Delhi on October 17, 2019.
20 Oct 2019
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NIPFP Seminar on Exploring Policy Issues in the Digital Technology ArenaAnubha Sinha participated in this seminar as a discussant on the "Regulating emerging technologies" panel. The event was held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on October 10 - 11, 2019.
20 Oct 2019
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Dystopia vs development: The Kashmir paradoxOn 26 July, Azmat Ali Mir, 26, landed in her hometown, Srinagar. A day later, uncertainty and panic gripped the Kashmir valley—the Amarnath yatris (pilgrims) and other tourists were being evacuated, there was heavy military deployment and …