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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, …
23 May 2018
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An open data ecosystem can boost India's GDP by $22 B and double farmer incomeMeiTY says increased data transparency will drive growth and improve governance across key industry sectors in the time to come.
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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Putting women human rights activists on the world mapBirubala Rabha may be a household name in Assam, but her crusade against the practice of witch-hunting in her State has not got the attention it deserves from the nation or the world. Barring a handful of articles in print and online …
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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Postcolonial Digital Connections International ConferenceAnubha Sinha was a speaker at this conference organized by Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, UCL and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung on May 16 and 17, 2018 at Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ZIRS) in Halle, Germany. Anubha Sinha …
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.
12 May 2018
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Consilience 2018National Law School of India University, Bangalore organized The Future of Blockchain Technology: Evolving a Framework for its Adoption and Regulation in India on May 5, 2018. Swaraj Barooah panel on "e-Governance and Public Service …
12 May 2018
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Comment: India's NTP 2018 gets digital makeover but needs complimentary policiesCriticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s least expected.
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.
3 May 2018
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Data Usage by Political PartiesSunil Abraham spoke to ANI regarding collection of data and its use by political parties for electoral gains.
3 May 2018
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Cyber experts say 'playground open' for influencing electionsCyber experts said that under the provisions provided by 43 (A) of Indian IT Act, two types of data collection are completely legal: first, the data shared by the user in the public domain and secondly, the data published by the social …
2 May 2018
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Now, Twitter too caught up in Cambridge Analytica controversyTwitter does not share a break-up of users by region, the platform has less than 100 million users in India.
29 Apr 2018
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You Are Not the Only One: India stares at a loneliness epidemic“To anyone looking at me from the outside, I seem like a fairly successful woman. I have a good job with great pay. I am in a relationship and have a bunch of close friends. I couldn’t figure out why I felt so angry or so lonely all the …
27 Apr 2018
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Aadhaar data of over 89 lakh MNREGA workers in Andhra Pradesh leaked onlineIndependent security researcher Kodali Srinivas tweeted screenshots of Aadhaar data of 89,38,138 MNREGA workers available on the Andhra Pradesh Benefit Disbursement Portal.
25 Apr 2018
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PAI WG Labor and Economy MeetingElonnai Hickok co-chaired the first PAI Labor and Economy WG in NYC on April 25, 2018.