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30 Jan 2019
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Open standards can disrupt Facebook’s messaging monopolyFacebook made the news last week when The New York Times’ Mike Isaac reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg intended to integrate the company’s three messaging platforms: WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
24 Jan 2019
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Submitted Your Biometrics for Aadhaar? Here’s How You Can Lock/Unlock That DataDid you know that UIDAI provides a facility that allows users to lock/unlock their Aadhaar biometric data online?
23 Jan 2019
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New movies lose out due to piracyPiracy continues to be a huge concern among filmmakers but it can also be a marketing strategy for small-budget films.
22 Jan 2019
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Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning ToolsGoogle is pouring an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday.
20 Jan 2019
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Cyber Policy Centres Meeting in Sri LankaElonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Ambika Tandon participated in this event organized by IDRC in Sri Lanka on January 11 - 14, 2019.
19 Jan 2019
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RFCs We Love meetupIn collaboration with India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc), CIS hosted the a 'RFCs We Love' meetup, where we discussed some IETF specifications and standards. The event was held on January 19 at the CIS office, Bangalore.
18 Jan 2019
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Webinar on the draft Intermediary Guidelines Amendment RulesCCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter organised a webinar on January 10 to discuss the draft "The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018". Gurshabad Grover was a discussant in the panel.
18 Jan 2019
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They know where you areWith hotel-booking app routinely sharing real-time guest data with police and government, lives of those fleeing persecution is in danger, privacy advocates fear.
18 Jan 2019
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Oyo Hotels’ Real-Time Digital Record Database Sparks Privacy FearsOyo Hotels’ pilot to maintain a real-time digital database of guests and plan to share it with law-enforcement agencies has triggered privacy concerns.
18 Jan 2019
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Is the viral #10YearChallenge just another sneaky way for tech firms to gather users’ personal data?Is it merely an exercise in nostalgia? Or is it providing fodder for facial recognition algorithms on ageing?
13 Jan 2019
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Civic activism over WhatsApp and stories of and from cab drivers are part of a new narrative in BengaluruDoes a city have a pulse? And can that pulse be felt in its technological interactions?
12 Jan 2019
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Creeped out by Netflix's 'You'? Here's how you can avoid online stalkers, data thievesSeveral social media users have no idea of how much of their information is stored on the Internet and what kind of information they are allowing the applications to access.
31 Dec 2018
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The constitutionality of MHA surveillance orderThe rules require review committees to examine all surveillance orders issued under this section every couple of months.
30 Dec 2018
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The dark side of future tech: Where are we headed on privacy, security, truth?#2018 Year-End Special: We now live in a time when devices listen, chips track your choices, and governments can watch from behind a barcode. How do we navigate this world?
30 Dec 2018
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MHA snoop order & bid to amend IT rules: China-like clampdown or tracking unlawful content?An MHA order last week authorised 10 government agencies to scan data on computers. This was followed by the Modi government’s proposal to amend the Information Technology rules for social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter …
26 Dec 2018
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India-China Tech Forum 2018Arindrajit Basu spoke at the India-China Tech Forum 2018 organised by ORF and Peking University at the Ji Xianlin Centre for India-China Studies, Mumbai on December 11 - 12, 2018. The event functioned as a bi-annual dialogue that fosters …
26 Dec 2018
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Big Brother is here: Amid snooping row, govt report says monitoring system 'practically complete'The recently released 2017-18 annual report of the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) says that surveillance equipment is being rolled out in 21 service areas across the country.
25 Dec 2018
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Ten Indian government agencies can now snoop on people’s internet dataIn a significant attack on online privacy, India’s Home Affair’s Ministry has authorised no fewer than ten different central government agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored …
25 Dec 2018
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Is Aadhaar Essential To Achieve Error-Free Electoral Rolls?The Election Commission’s plans to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls may have stirred a hornet’s nest.
25 Dec 2018
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How data privacy and governance issues have battered Facebook ahead of 2019 pollsRohit S, an airline pilot, had enough of Facebook. With over 1,000 friends and part of at least a dozen groups on subjects ranging from planes to politics, the 34-year-old found himself constantly checking his phone for updates and plunging …
25 Dec 2018
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Centre’s order on computer surveillance threatens right to privacy, experts sayThe Constitutional validity of the notification allowing ten agencies to intercept information is uncertain.
25 Dec 2018
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AI for Social Good SummitArindrajit Basu was a speaker at the event co-organized by Google AI and United Nations ESCAP on December 13, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
24 Dec 2018
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Many sites bypass porn banThey use proxy and mirror sites to cater to India, now on a list of countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that block intimate content online.
24 Dec 2018
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Centre’s order on computer surveillance is backed by law – but the law lacks adequate safeguardsThe Information Technology Act’s surveillance scheme furthers a colonial hangover.
14 Dec 2018
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Podcast on 'Abortion rights and privacy' with PIAmbika Tandon recorded a podcast with Privacy International on abortion rights, bodily autonomy, and privacy in the Indian and Argentinian context, which was released on December 6, 2018.
6 Dec 2018
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Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese DailyIndic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018 report at Asomiya Pratidin ePaper- Highest Circulated Assamese Daily
5 Dec 2018
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Teaching at Shristi InterludeShweta Mohandas is participating as a mentor for Srishti Interlude (a set of workshops that help the design students to produce outputs on a given theme) the theme of this year is Privacy. The course would end on December 7, 2018.
5 Dec 2018
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Report: From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to PrivacyEva Blum-Dumontet, Research Officer at Privacy International, published her report on gender and privacy on November 28, 2018. The report, titled 'From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy', traces the history of …
5 Dec 2018
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How Bengalureans use Whatsapp to connect and solve civic problemsSilicon Plateau Volume 2 is a collection of essays where contributors responded to the question: what does it mean to be an app user today—as a worker, a client, or simply an observer?
5 Dec 2018
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Future Tech and Future LawThe Dept. of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka organised the 21st edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit from November 29, 2018 to December 1, 2018 at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru. Arindrajit Basu was a speaker at the panel on 'Future Tech and Future …