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Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
25 Jun 2018
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Death By WhatsAppThe fatal messages were both in text and in audio. They were in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Assamese and Gujarati among others.
25 Jun 2018
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Data Privacy: Footprints on the WebTechnology has made data protection a hot button issue. Now, a group of eminent citizens, mostly lawyers, have formulated a draft privacy bill, a legal framework that protects the individual’s right to privacy, but it faces legal …
23 Jun 2018
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Is Privacy Obsolete?Pranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event organized by TERI in Bangalore on June 22, 2018.
23 Jun 2018
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Anushka finds support for her anti-litter tiradeShe is well within her rights to shame the affluent man who threw plastic waste out of his swanky car, many say.
11 Jun 2018
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Citizens’ Draft Privacy Bill Seeks To Revolutionise Data Collection, Storage In IndiaA draft privacy bill proposes sweeping reforms to the way personal data is collected, processed and stored in India.
5 Jun 2018
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EC disables easy access to electoral data across statesThe recently-concluded Assembly elections may have set more than just one precedent with implications for the entire nation.
1 Jun 2018
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Patanjali's Kimbho swiftly retreats over security scare, ripped on TwitterSwadeshi" messaging app targeted at WhatsApp taken off from app stores hours after launch.
1 Jun 2018
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Allow admins to add users to online group chats only after permission: SFLC.inSFLC.in -- a donor supported legal services organisation -- has written an open letter to messaging service providers like WhatsApp, Facebook and others, urging them to modify their platforms to ensure that users are not added to group …
31 May 2018
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India Proposes Law to Give Indians Complete Control of their Digital Health DataIndia’s health ministry has proposed a law to govern data security in the healthcare sector that would give individuals complete ownership of their health data.
31 May 2018
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Election Experiment Proves Facebook Just Doesn't Care About Fake News In IndiaMuch-hyped fact-checking initiative identified only 30 bits of fake news in month-long Karnataka campaign. Yup — 30!
31 May 2018
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Don't blindly forward WhatsApp messages. You could be suedNever before in Bengaluru has the Internet and social media taken such a vicious and violent turn as it did last week.
30 May 2018
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Alexa’s recording leak in US ‘echoes’ privacy issues hereMarket analyst Sanjay Mehta (name changed) has been keeping his Amazon Echo smart speaker mostly unplugged since reports surfaced last week of the device’s voice assistant, Alexa, inadvertently recording and sending out conversations of a …
26 May 2018
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IETF Indian Community Meetup: RFCs We Love (IoT edition)On May 19, 2018, Gurshabad Grover and Sandeep Kumar attended a 'RFCs We Love Meetup' of the Indian IETF Community held at Zoomcar's office in Bangalore. This meetup was dedicated to discussing IETF RFCs/Active Internet Drafts meant for …
26 May 2018
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Emerging Technologies: Issues & Way ForwardAayush Rathi and Gurshabad Grover attended a two day conference on 'Emerging Technologies: Issues & Way Forward' organised by the Technology Policy team at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), held on 23rd and 24th …
26 May 2018
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Complying with Europe’s GDPR will be a “matter of survival” for Indian IT firmsEurope’s new data laws could shake up Indian IT companies.
25 May 2018
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Inter Movements Open Forum: Trafficking BillOn 18 May 2018 Gurshabad Grover on behalf of CIS presented comments on the Trafficking (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2018 at a meeting of the Inter Movements Open Forum jointly organised by Sangram, Naz Foundation, NNSW, …
22 May 2018
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The law tries to catch up with techAt his testimony before the U.S. Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the upcoming elections in India.
22 May 2018
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Privacy in the Digital Age: Addressing Common Challenges, Seizing OpportunitiesDG Justice and Consumers and European Union is organizing a conference on privacy in the digital age on May 25, 2018 in New Delhi.
20 May 2018
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More errors in Aadhaar data in Andhra Pradesh than in voter databaseAs much as eight per cent of Aadhaar data collected in Andhra Pradesh has errors, mostly related to name, address and date of birth, which is more than the errors in the voter ID database. But still, 87% of rural residents approve mandatory …
20 May 2018
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Fairness, Transparency and Accountable AIAmber Sinha participated remotely in the inaugural meeting of Fairness, Transparency and Accountable AI working group of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence on May 10, 2018. The meeting was held at DeepMind's office in London.
18 May 2018
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Rootconf 2018Rootconf is an annual conference on DevOps and IT Infrastructure and is organised by HasGeek. On May 11 and 12, 2018, Gurshabad Grover, Natallia Khaniejo and Aayush Rathi attended Rootconf 2018.
18 May 2018
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Indian Cricket Board Exposes Personal Data of Thousands of PlayersThe IT security researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered a trove of personal and sensitive data belonging to around 15,000 to 20,000 Indian applicants participating in cricket seasons 2015-2018.
13 May 2018
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Aadhaar Remains an Unending Security Nightmare for a Billion IndiansYesterday was the 38th and last day of hearings in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutional validity of India’s biometric authentication programme. After weeks of arguments from both sides, the Supreme Court has now reserved …
12 May 2018
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RightsCon Toronto 2018RightsCon is organizing the 2018 edition of the event at Beanfield Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto in Canada. A session on Pervasive Technologies project titled "Cheap and chipper: IP in India’s affordable smartphones" is scheduled on …
12 May 2018
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India's National ID Project Brings Pain to Those it Aims to HelpPoor management, corruption and fraud are threatening to derail the world’s largest national identity project.
6 May 2018
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Use of AI and ML in Healthtech Will Not Be Limited to Services Alone, Say These ExpertsThe healthcare segment will see significant entrepreneurial activity and more investment coming in the sector.
6 May 2018
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Meeting of Coalition for an Inclusive Approach on the Trafficking BillGurshabad Grover attended a meeting of the Coalition for an Inclusive Approach on the Trafficking Bill at the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore on May 3, 2018.
5 May 2018
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Digital India' in Dire Need of Safety Policy Reboot - Cybersecurity ExpertsSome experts say the need of the hour is for India to update its cybersecurity policy to respond to growing threats in cyberspace. Information warfare specialists hint at the local storage of digital information as the key to the …
5 May 2018
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Artificial Intelligence for Growth: Leveraging AI and Robotics for India's Economic TransformationAmber Sinha took part in the second international conference organized by ASSOCHAM at Hotel Shangri-La in New Delhi on April 27, 2018.
5 May 2018
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#NAMApolicy on Online Content RegulationSwaraj Barooah attended the #NAMApolicy on Online Content Regulation organized by Media Nama at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on May 3, 2018.