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23 Mar 2016
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Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to ScrutinyWe need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
23 Mar 2016
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Dead and ClickingA look at the phenomenon of digital memorials; repositories and time capsules of a life even after it's ended in the real world.
22 Mar 2016
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India Still Trying To Turn Optional Aadhaar Identification Number Into A Mandatory National Identity Systemfrom the sliding-down-the-slippery-slope-to-disaster dept
22 Mar 2016
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Hard to broad ban!The provisions under the Telegraph Act are wispy and can’t be convincingly invoked to exercise a jurisdiction on the internet world.
22 Mar 2016
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Aadhaar: Govt will not compromise on national securityThe government is confident that the Aadhaar Bill will be passed.
17 Mar 2016
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Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?This article by Pratap Vikram Singh, Governance Now, discusses the problems emerging out of the UIDAI project due to its lack of mechanisms for informed and granular consent, and for seeking recourse in the case of denial of service. The …
17 Mar 2016
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India's billion-member biometric database raises privacy fearsIndia's parliament is set to pass legislation that gives federal agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears the privacy of a billion people could be compromised.
17 Mar 2016
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Forget privacy, Aadhaar Bill gives too much power to the executiveThe government promotes the Aadhaar programme because it believes the 12-digit unique identification number will let them track every penny spent from the exchequer. But money is not all that the Aadhaar number can track.
17 Mar 2016
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A scheme in India to help the poor raises privacy concernsIndia’s legislators are on Wednesday debating a law that would allow the government to collect biometric and demographic information from people in return for distributing to them government benefits and subsidies.
16 Mar 2016
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Will Only Legal Backing For Aadhaar Suffice?Aadhaar is set to become mandatory, but the opponents of the scheme are not amused. Concerns about privacy of the Aadhaar number and the authenticity of the biometric data being collected have been expressed by people right from the …
16 Mar 2016
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Govt narrative on Aadhaar has not changed in the last six years: Sunil AbrahamThe bill is basically the same as the UPA version, with some cosmetic changes, and some tokenism towards the right to privacy, says Abraham.
16 Mar 2016
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Aadhaar is actually surveillance tech: Sunil AbrahamOn March 12, the Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, paving the way for giving legal status to Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique identification number generated after …
11 Mar 2016
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GNI-Industry Dialogue Learning Session: Human Rights Impact Assessments and Due Diligence in the ICT sectorElonnai Hickok attended the meeting organized by Global Network Initiative on March 11, 2016 in Washington D.C.
4 Mar 2016
28 Feb 2016
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Why the Internet is Making India FuriousThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore is a kind of hacker club for wonks and lawyers obsessed with issues of digital rights and global development. Not exactly the mainstream kids’ lunch table. But the Center was brought …
28 Feb 2016
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Violence call key to 'sedition'Words, whether spoken or shouted, that question or even malign the government cannot be labelled as sedition, unless they specifically incite violence, lawyers and human rights experts familiar with fundamental rights and sedition laws have …
28 Feb 2016
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India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO modelAbility to access 'net from mobe no longer considered a miracle.
27 Feb 2016
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Why India snubbed Facebook's free Internet offerThe social media giant wanted to give the people of India free access to a chunk of the Internet, but the people weren't interested.
27 Feb 2016
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Netizen Report: The EU Wrestles With Facebook Over PrivacyGlobal Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world.
27 Feb 2016
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International Mother Language DayOn 21 February 2016, Eenadu published a special story on the occasion of International Mother language day in Hyderabad edition. The special story covered Wikipedians effort to develop Encyclopedic content online and also about …
26 Feb 2016
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The Intellects holds 2nd International Conclave of Odia LanguageThe Intellects, a Delhi-based progressive forum of intellectuals, held the 2nd International Conclave of Odia Language at the India International Centre in New Delhi today.
21 Feb 2016
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ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವನಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ
20 Feb 2016
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2016 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property ("WIPIP") ColloquiumProf. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by …
19 Feb 2016
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National Koha ConclaveInformatics Publishing organized an event at Fortune Park JP Celestial in Bangalore on February 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham delivered the inaugural address on the occasion.
15 Feb 2016
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Zuckerberg's Plan Spurned as India Backs Full Net NeutralityFacebook Inc.’s plans for expansion in India have suffered a major setback.
15 Feb 2016
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What does Sri Lanka’s ratification of the Disability Convention mean?The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations in 2006 according to the universal declaration of Human Rights and international conventions on human rights. Sri Lanka has signed the …
15 Feb 2016
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Trai upholds Net Neutrality in setback to Facebook’s Free BasicsTrai says Internet service providers will not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services.
15 Feb 2016
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Now trending: Regional Indian language social media networksHow many languages did you speak today? Chances are there was a lot of English at work and at home, but at least a sprinkling of Hindi (or Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil or Kannada) when you were chatting, gossiping or joking with …
15 Feb 2016
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Facebook’s Free Basics hits snag in IndiaIndian regulators have dealt a major blow to Facebook’s controversial Free Basics online access plan by forbidding so-called differential pricing by internet companies, in effect banning the programme in the country.
14 Feb 2016
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Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to hold the government to account?Despite its popularity, the site's benefits are going unutilised.