Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
30 Nov 2010
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This Is All India RadiaOur news media blanked it out, but the Internet forced the issue, says Debarshi Dasgupta in an article published in the Outlook Magazine.
30 Nov 2010
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The Niira Radia Tapes: Scrutinizing the SnoopersThere’s been plenty of outrage in India over taped phone calls between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and local journalists, revealing what some people believe is evidence that star reporters at the country’s newspapers and TV channels are …
30 Nov 2010
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Information Security Summit 2010The Information Security Summit 2010 will be held between 2-3 December 2010 in Chennai. The following is the agenda for the event.
29 Nov 2010
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Time to bury e-mail?Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, had a simple message to the world: email is outdated since it can no longer handle the sort of digital communication that we’ve got used to. Facebook Messages, which integrates email, …
23 Nov 2010
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The internet’s new billionNew web users — in countries like Brazil and China — are changing the culture of the internet.
15 Nov 2010
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DOC 2.0: A Resources Sharing Mela by NGO Documentation CentresA Resource Sharing Mela and Meet of DCM (Document Centres Meet) at the Centre for Education & Documentation in Domlur, Bangalore.
24 Oct 2010
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
14 Oct 2010
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Internet, szabadonA polgárjogi aktivisták konfrontálódtak és panaszkodtak, a Google és a Facebook hárított és panaszkodott az Internet at Liberty konferencián, amelyet kedden és szerdán rendezett a Google és a CEU Budapesten.
13 Oct 2010
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How the UID project can be a cause for concernThe Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), headed by Nandan Nilekani, is the UPA government's most ambitious project, where one billion Indians are branded with a unique identity number.
11 Oct 2010
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In new Facebook features, a comeback for communityNearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? …
1 Oct 2010
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Stiff Resistance Dogs India's ID PlanAn article about the UID project by Indrajit Basu in Asia Times Online.
21 Sep 2010
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Conference: Internet at Liberty 2010This conference is being held in Budapest from 20 to 22 September 2010. It is co-sponsored by Google and Central European University. Sunil Abraham and Anja Kovacs are attending the conference.
9 Sep 2010
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INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID ProjectFears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
30 Aug 2010
24 Aug 2010
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Information is Beautiful hacks in India with David CameronThe Prime Minister took some of the UK's top hackers and data experts with him to India this week. David McCandless was with them.
8 Aug 2010
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Call, text, email complaint against rogue auto driverHarassed by an auto driver? Helplines give you no relief? Here's the people's way to help you out. Just report your issue online, call or even SMS sitting in a noisy restaurant, and be heard.
28 Jul 2010
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UID coverage in UdayavaniA press conference was held at the Press Club in Bangalore on 26 July, 2010. It was co-organised by Citizen's Action Forum, Alternate Law Forum and the Centre for Internet and Society. Mathew Thomas and Vinay Baindur were the speakers. …
28 Jul 2010
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More Debate on UID Project NeededA press conference on UID was held at the Press Club in Bangalore on 26 July, 2010. It was co-organised by Citizen's Action Forum, Alternate Law Forum and the Centre for Internet and Society. Mathew Thomas and Vinay Baindur spoke about the …
15 Jul 2010
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Networking? Not workingConcerns about privacy, wastage of time and trivialized communication are some reasons ‘refuseniks’ are going off sites such as Facebook and MySpace, writes Shreya Ray in Livemint.
1 Jul 2010
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UID Act may be released for debate, may be introduced in monsoon sessionAn article by Karen Leigh & Surabhi Agarwal in livemint on June 30, 2010.
25 Jun 2010
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Activists welcome privacy Bill, but point out concernsExperts have welcomed the government's move to bring in a law for protecting individual privacy, amid concerns about the potential misuse of personal data it is collecting to execute social welfare and security schemes.
15 Jun 2010
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Peeping Toms In Your InboxNothing’s safe any more—not your mobile number, nor your e-mail—as they’re put on offer for the benefit of telemarketers, writes Namrata Joshi and Neha Bhatt in an article published in the Outlook.
11 Jun 2010
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I don't want my fingerprints takenThrough this article published in Down to Earth, Nishant Shah looks at the role of the state as arbiter of our privacy.
4 Jun 2010
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Facebook, privacy and IndiaDoes Facebook's decision to open out user information and data to third party websites amount to an invasion of privacy and should users' seriously consider getting out of the site? Sunil Abraham doesn't think so.
19 May 2010
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India slowly gets to grips with ecommerceGrowth in computer use and Internet penetration will help e-commerce.
12 May 2010
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Biometry Is WatchingIn its first steps, the UID drive encounters practical problems, raises ethical questions, reports Sugata Srinivasaraju in Outlook.
29 Apr 2010
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UID project draws flak from civil rights activistsThe unique identification project is drawing a flak from civil rights activists.
29 Apr 2010
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UID info can be misusedPublic organisations, NGOs and concerned citizens feel UID may become an easy database for anti-social elements.
29 Apr 2010
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Scrap UID project, say people's organisationsThe unique identification number project is executed without any legislative or parliamentary sanction.
29 Apr 2010
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ID programme faces first challenge over privacy, dataThe government is looking to the ID programme to help ensure that various welfare programmes reach the poor