Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
28 Nov 2018
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Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'Considering the monopoly and clout that Google enjoys, it must be held accountable for promoting such stereotypes and values, experts say.
28 Nov 2018
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DSCI Bangalore Chapter meetGurshabad Grover and Karan Saini attended the DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet held in Bangalore at 10K NASSCOM Startup Warehouse on November 22, 2018.
28 Nov 2018
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Are connected tech toys too smart for their own good?Despite their merits, connected toys raise a few concerns about data privacy and security.
28 Nov 2018
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Amazon launches Machine Learning-based platform for healthcare spaceAmazon’s Comprehend Medical platform uses a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service to process unstructured medical text and information such as dosages, symptoms and signs, and patient diagnosis.
19 Nov 2018
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VFS Global to spend 3 million euro if data localisation is mandated in IndiaVFS Global, an international visa outsourcing and administration company, will spend about 3 million euros on migrating data of Indians from the UK and Germany if the Indian government mandates data localisation in the country.
18 Nov 2018
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Speculative Futures Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Media, Entertainment, and GamingPranav Manjesh Bidare attended the event organised by Quicksand between November 16 and 18, 2018 in Bangalore as a panelist.
16 Nov 2018
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IETF103Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) organized the IETF103 in Bangkok from November 3 to November 9, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
16 Nov 2018
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Briefing on BBC News pan-India research on how 'fake news' / digital misinformation spreadsAmber Sinha participated in a special private briefing on the BBC's pan India research on how misinformation spreads. The briefing was conducted on November 16, 2018 in New Delhi.
15 Nov 2018
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Building a Community of Practice: Reflections from 2nd All PartnersOn Wednesday, November 14th, the Partnership on AI held its 2nd annual All Partners Meeting in San Francisco, California. Representatives from our 80+ member organizations – for-profit companies, civil society organizations, academic …
7 Nov 2018
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Roundtable on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2018Akriti Bopanna and Ambika Tandon conducted a panel on 'Gender and Intermediary Liability' at the Digital Citizen Summit, hosted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, on November 1, 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
5 Nov 2018
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Human rights review of the verification code extension for EPPOn September 20, 2018 Gurshabad Grover sent a review of the human rights considerations in the Internet Draft, 'Verification Code Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-verificationcode-04), which is a …
1 Nov 2018
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Connections 2018Gurshabad Grover attended Connections 2018, a pre-IETF event organised by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) in Bangalore on October 31 and November 1, 2018.
31 Oct 2018
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Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and EnvironmentShweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment held at Tandem Research's office in Goa on October 5, 2018. She also made the framing intervention for the first session by addressing the question …
31 Oct 2018
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Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governanceSunil Abraham gave a talk at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore on October 16, 2018. Sunil used a series of stories to explain how surveillance works and fails in the context of …
31 Oct 2018
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Participation in the meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques'From 30 September 2018 to 4 October 2018, Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings of the working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' held in Gjøvik, Norway. The meetings were organized by Standards Norway with …
30 Oct 2018
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Smart City Standardization - ICT PerspectiveAn event on Smart City standardization – ICT Perspective was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards in Bangalore on October 30, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
29 Oct 2018
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Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official StatementGoing by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
28 Oct 2018
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Rural Indians don’t trust messages on WhatsApp blindly: SurveyOnly 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.
28 Oct 2018
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Factcheck: No, phones of users who provided only Aadhaar as proof of identity won’t be disconnectedEver since the Supreme Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, which prohibited the use of the 12-digit biometrics-linked unique identity number by private entities as well as its linking with phone numbers and bank accounts, telecom companies and …
28 Oct 2018
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Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital AgeOn September 25, 2018, Elonnai Hickok participated in a side event Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age organized by INCLO and Privacy International at the Human Rights Council 39th ordinary session. …
28 Oct 2018
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Brazil’s experience a red flag for WhatsApp in Indian polls, say expertsData shows that the share of active WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled since 2017, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
25 Oct 2018
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Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven LifeElonnai Hickok was a speaker in the panel "Move Slower and Fix Things" which was part of the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. The event was organized by International Conference of Data Protection …
18 Oct 2018
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Spending too much time on social media? Tech abuse may lead to mental health issuesTechnology is a boon, no doubt. But where can we, in ourdigital lives, draw the line between convenience and addiction? ET’s Divya J Shekhar finds out how the IT city is dealing with internet addiction and how collective social effort might …
18 Oct 2018
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Not Surprised by Indian govt's data localisation directives: Michael DellThe Indian government's attempts to ensure that companies adhere to data localisation norms will spawn similar requests from other countries, Michael Dell, the founder and chief executive of Dell Technologies, said.
16 Oct 2018
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Sales of surveillance cameras are soaring, raising questions about privacyThe Telangana government wants more eyes on the streets to upgrade Hyderabad’s safety. It has asked enterprises, public sectors, residential associations and individuals to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in and around …
16 Oct 2018
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Internet services not to be affected as DNS servers undergo updateInternet services across the country are unlikely to be impacted over the next 48 hours even as the Domain Name System (DNS) servers undergo a security update coordinated by global regulator, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and …
16 Oct 2018
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Indian Feminist Judgment Project WorkshopSwaraj Paul Barooah was a discussant at the Indian Feminist Judgment Project 'righting together' workshop organised in Delhi by Jindal from October 6 - 7, 2018.
16 Oct 2018
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Community Standards Roundtable ConversationsAmbika Tandon was a participant in a roundtable organized by Facebook, School of Media & Cultural Studies, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bengaluru on October 7, 2018.
16 Oct 2018
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Are online shows obscene?Should content on online platforms such as Netflix be monitored and censored? How can they show nudity when films made for the cinema halls can’t, a petition wants to know.
9 Oct 2018
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State of Work in IndiaAayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon attended a panel discussion organized by Bangalore International Centre (TERI) and Azim Premji University, on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 in Bengaluru. A report titled 'State of Working India' by the Centre for …