Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
15 Mar 2013
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Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubtsTwo separate organizations are capturing biometric data of over 1 billion Indians, creating fresh doubts in the government's justification to catalogue citizens.
13 Mar 2013
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Rethinking the Internet: The Way ForwardTelecom Italia and Financial Times are organizing this event at Telecom Italia Future Centre in Italy on March 21 and 22, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event.
13 Mar 2013
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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin MaclayColin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
6 Mar 2013
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Social media undermining journalistic credibility?The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
4 Mar 2013
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Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ HangoutIndian politicians are slowly warming up to social media.
3 Mar 2013
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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
3 Mar 2013
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People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say expertsInternationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
2 Mar 2013
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Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
1 Mar 2013
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Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activistsA group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
28 Feb 2013
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"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and SocietyThe DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
22 Feb 2013
19 Feb 2013
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Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
13 Feb 2013
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Indian net service providers too play censorship tricksThe study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
13 Feb 2013
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Hate speech: ban or ignore?The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the …
13 Feb 2013
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Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in KashmirHacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
8 Feb 2013
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Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to ArrestsOnline abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
6 Feb 2013
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Censorship and sensibility in IndiaThe past few weeks in India have seen films, an all-girl rock band, a fashion show, a Booker prize-winning novelist and a reputed academic become targets of harassment, legal action or threats of violence.
30 Jan 2013
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An innovative concept comes to the foreThere’s very little awareness about Bitcoin — a new digital currency and payment system, designed for the voting process of ‘Bitfilm 13’ — in the City. Aaron Koenig, the managing director at Bitfilm Networks Hamburg, addressed this issue …
29 Jan 2013
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Surveillance Camp: Privatized State SurveillanceThis is the second in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF’s Surveillance Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
26 Jan 2013
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9th International Asian ConferenceITechLaw is organizing the 9th Annual Asian ITechLaw Conference on February 14 and 15, 2013 in India's high technology capital - Bangalore, India. Sunil Abraham will be speaking at this event.
25 Jan 2013
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Internet Freedom in India – Open to DebateIn the aftermath of an Index on Censorship debate in New Delhi, Kirsty Hughes says India’s web users are standing at a crossroads
23 Jan 2013
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Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: country perspectivesThis blog post is fourth in a series of eight blog posts to report on the “Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of Expression” recently concluded in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
18 Jan 2013
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Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?This week Index held a high level panel debate in partnership with the Editors Guild of India and the India International Centre to discuss the question “Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?” Mahima Kaul reports
17 Jan 2013
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Is freedom of expression under threat in digital age?With social networking site Facebook boasting of 1 billion members globally and micro-blogging site Twitter claiming millions, opinion was divided on whether the freedom of expression was under threat in the digital age.
15 Jan 2013
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7th India Digital Summit 2013This summitt organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India is being held in New Delhi from January 16 to 17, 2013 at the Lalit Hotel
13 Jan 2013
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Third South Asian Meeting on the Internet and Freedom of ExpressionInternet Democracy Project, Voices for Interactive Choice & Empowerment and Global Partners & Associates are organizing this event in Dhaka on January 14 - 15, 2013.
7 Jan 2013
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Panel Discussion on E-Commerce at NLSIUPranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event held at the National Law School of India University on January 7, 2013.
7 Jan 2013
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Clash of the cyberworldsIn an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur across the political spectrum of nations, even in liberal democracies.
4 Jan 2013
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Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business TransformationMobile India 2013 is being held at the Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore on 9 January 2013. Sunil Abraham is speaking at this event.
4 Jan 2013
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Cool Jobs | Parmesh Shahani, Head, Godrej India Culture LabThe man behind Mumbai’s most original ideas space on being a cross-pollinator