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28 Jul 2013
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Guilty until Proven Innocent: Pirates, Pornographers, Terrorists and the IT Act in IndiaThe Research Center of Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg organized the Summer School 2013 at Hamburg, Germany from July 29 to August 2, 2013. Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist in the session on "Guilty until Proven …
26 Jul 2013
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Your life's an open FacebookThe jury's out on Facebook's newly introduced Graph Search. While some argue that it's a stalker's dream come true, others say it's a great tool for social research. Shikha Kumar jumps right into the debate.
26 Jul 2013
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Whats & Hows of WikiThe Kings School students of class 10 were blessed to have Nitika Tandon & Subhashish Panigrahi of Wikipedia Foundation to conduct a workshop on the whats & hows of Wiki, creating & editing Wiki pages, etc. Our students also got a hands on …
26 Jul 2013
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Meeting of a Sub-committee on DNA Profiling Bill in HyderabadA sub-committee has been constituted as per the recommendations of the Expert Committee of DNA Profiling Bill. The sub-committee will have a meeting in Hyderabad on August 6, 2013.
26 Jul 2013
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Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and RightsMalavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
24 Jul 2013
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Free SoftwareTo spread awareness on free software and its philosophy, Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) in partnership with Jnana Vikas Institute of Technology, Bidadi, organized a 9-days workshop between July 20 and 28 at the Institute campus …
22 Jul 2013
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Snooping technology: Will CMS work in India?The Indian government plans to spend $132 million on setting up its brand new Central Monitoring System this year.
18 Jul 2013
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सावधान आपके प्रोफ़ाइल पर है पुलिस की नज़र!जन लोकपाल, दिल्ली रेप केस और बाबा रामदेव के आंदोलनों में उमड़ी भीड़ से घबराई सरकारी एजेंसियां अब सोशल मीडिया पर कड़ी नज़र रखने के लिए मैदान में उतरी हैं.
15 Jul 2013
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Is CMS a Compromise of Your Security?By secretly monitoring and recording all Indians through a Central Monitoring System, our government will end up making citizens and businesses less safe.
15 Jul 2013
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India’s Central Monitoring System: Security can’t come at cost of privacyDuring a Google hangout session in June this year, Milind Deora, minister of state for communications and information technology, addressed concerns related to the central monitoring system (CMS).
15 Jul 2013
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India's centralised snooping system facing big delaysCentral Monitoring System lacks algorithms, database and data.
15 Jul 2013
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How the world’s largest democracy is preparing to snoop on its citizensMonitoring system will allow govt to snoop on voice calls, SMSes, and access Internet data.
15 Jul 2013
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An Interview of Vera FranzThis interview was conducted at the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities on June 26, 2013.
7 Jul 2013
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Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic StrategiesThe fourth annual conference in political economy was organized by the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam at the Hague from July 9 - 13, 2013.
7 Jul 2013
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dna exclusive: Geeks have a solution to digital surveillance in India: CryptographyWhile you were thinking of what next to post on Twitter, the government has stealthily put an ambitious surveillance programme in place that tracks your every move in the digital world — through voice calls, SMS and MMS, GPRS, fax …
1 Jul 2013
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WIPO reaches agreement on treaty for blindOfficials at the World Intellectual Property Organisation have reached an agreement to provide wider access to books for the visually impaired in different countries, a long-pending demand of the World Blind Union and activist groups.
1 Jul 2013
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Concerns over central snoopEyebrows have been raised at the Centre’s single-window system to intercept phone calls and internet exchanges — the desi version of the US’s surveillance programme, PRISM — that is expected to roll out this year-end.
1 Jul 2013
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Biometrics or bust? India's Identity CrisisMalavika Jayaram is speaking at an event organized by the Oxford Internet Institute on July 2, 2013. The talk will be held at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS.
30 Jun 2013
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In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the RadarPrism, the contentious U.S. data-collection surveillance program, has captured the world’s attention ever since whistle-blower Edward Snowden leaked details of global spying to the Guardian and Washington Post.
30 Jun 2013
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‘Miracle at Marrakesh’ to help visually impaired readThe treaty will make access to books for the visually impaired, blind and print disabled easier.
29 Jun 2013
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The Pervert in the Cubicle: Of Pornographers, Pirates and Terrorists: A Talk by Nishant ShahDr. Nishant Shah was a speaker at the 2013 Annenberg - Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute organized by Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Programme for …
29 Jun 2013
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Issue of duplication of identities of users under control: NilekaniNandan Nilekani says UIDAI system almost completely accurate, duplication of identities virtually negligible.
29 Jun 2013
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Internet users enraged over US online spyingIndia is the fifth most tracked nation by American intelligence agencies.
27 Jun 2013
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Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reasonDon't mind us, we're just censoring your content for you...
27 Jun 2013
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A Treat for the BlindThe WIPO treaty will provide copyright exceptions on books making them available to blind people in formats they can use.
26 Jun 2013
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Govt goes after porn, makes ISPs ban sitesThe government has decided to put a blanket ban on several websites that allow users to share pornographic content.
22 Jun 2013
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Cyber experts suggest using open source software to protect privacyBig Brother is watching. With the Central Monitoring System (CMS) at home and PRISM from the US, millions of users worldwide have become vulnerable to online surveillance by state agencies without even realizing it. No surprise, several …
21 Jun 2013
20 Jun 2013
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Opportunities for TV White Spaces in India WorkshopShyam Ponappa, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society is participating in a workshop on TV White Space. The workshop is being organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the Royal …
17 Jun 2013
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A Feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians on HMTVBased on the Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, HMTV (one of the leading Telugu News channels in Andhra Pradesh) has produced a half an hour feature on Wikipedia and Telugu Wikipedians.