Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
15 Nov 2010
News
DOC 2.0: A Resources Sharing Mela by NGO Documentation CentresA Resource Sharing Mela and Meet of DCM (Document Centres Meet) at the Centre for Education & Documentation in Domlur, Bangalore.
24 Oct 2010
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
23 Oct 2010
14 Oct 2010
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Internet, szabadonA polgárjogi aktivisták konfrontálódtak és panaszkodtak, a Google és a Facebook hárított és panaszkodott az Internet at Liberty konferencián, amelyet kedden és szerdán rendezett a Google és a CEU Budapesten.
13 Oct 2010
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How the UID project can be a cause for concernThe Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), headed by Nandan Nilekani, is the UPA government's most ambitious project, where one billion Indians are branded with a unique identity number.
11 Oct 2010
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In new Facebook features, a comeback for communityNearly 750 tweets bombard the web every second. Internet traffic is growing by 40 per cent a year. People post 2.5 billion photos on Facebook every month. Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. But who owns all that data? …
1 Oct 2010
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Stiff Resistance Dogs India's ID PlanAn article about the UID project by Indrajit Basu in Asia Times Online.
21 Sep 2010
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Conference: Internet at Liberty 2010This conference is being held in Budapest from 20 to 22 September 2010. It is co-sponsored by Google and Central European University. Sunil Abraham and Anja Kovacs are attending the conference.
9 Sep 2010
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Moldova Online: An Interview with Victor DiaconuIn this interview for Russian Cyberspace, set up with the help of Sunil Abraham (Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India), computer software professional Victor Diaconu explains the nature of Internet …
9 Sep 2010
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INDIA Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID ProjectFears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
8 Sep 2010
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Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A ReportOn Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation …
31 Aug 2010
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Cybercrime and PrivacyElonnai Hickok examines privacy in the context of India’s legal provisions on cybercrime. She picks up the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act as amended in 2008 dealing with cyber crimes and provides a fair analysis of …
31 Aug 2010
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Beyond Access as InclusionOn 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in …
30 Aug 2010
28 Aug 2010
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright ActIndia's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy …
27 Aug 2010
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Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010A summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
26 Aug 2010
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No UID Campaign in New Delhi - A ReportThe Unique Identification (UID) Bill is not pro-citizen. The scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforseen consequences. A public meeting on UID was held at the Constitution Club, Rafi Marg in New Delhi on 25 August, …
25 Aug 2010
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Wherever you are, whatever you doFacebook recently launched a location-based service called Places. Privacy advocates are resenting to this new development. Sunil Abraham identifies the three prime reasons for this outcry against Facebook. The article was published in the …
24 Aug 2010
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Information is Beautiful hacks in India with David CameronThe Prime Minister took some of the UK's top hackers and data experts with him to India this week. David McCandless was with them.
13 Aug 2010
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Does the Government want to enter our homes?When rogue politicians and bureaucrats are granted unrestricted access to information then the very future of democracy and free media will be in jeopardy. In an article published in the Pune Mirror on 10 August, 2010, Sunil Abraham …
11 Aug 2010
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UID Project in India - Some Possible RamificationsHaving a standard for decentralized ID verification rather than a centralized database that would more often than not be misused by various authorities will solve ID problems, writes Liliyan in this blog entry. These blog posts to be …
8 Aug 2010
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Call, text, email complaint against rogue auto driverHarassed by an auto driver? Helplines give you no relief? Here's the people's way to help you out. Just report your issue online, call or even SMS sitting in a noisy restaurant, and be heard.
5 Aug 2010
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Civil Liberties and the amended Information Technology Act, 2000This post examines certain limitations of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended in 2008). Malavika Jayaram points out the fact that when most countries of the world are adopting plain English instead of the conventional legal …
30 Jul 2010
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Feedback to the NIA BillMalavika Jayaram and Elonnai Hickok introduce the formal submission of CIS to the proposed National Identification Authority of India (NIA) Bill, 2010, which would give every resident a unique identity. The submissions contain the detailed …
28 Jul 2010
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UID coverage in UdayavaniA press conference was held at the Press Club in Bangalore on 26 July, 2010. It was co-organised by Citizen's Action Forum, Alternate Law Forum and the Centre for Internet and Society. Mathew Thomas and Vinay Baindur were the speakers. …
28 Jul 2010
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More Debate on UID Project NeededA press conference on UID was held at the Press Club in Bangalore on 26 July, 2010. It was co-organised by Citizen's Action Forum, Alternate Law Forum and the Centre for Internet and Society. Mathew Thomas and Vinay Baindur spoke about the …
15 Jul 2010
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Networking? Not workingConcerns about privacy, wastage of time and trivialized communication are some reasons ‘refuseniks’ are going off sites such as Facebook and MySpace, writes Shreya Ray in Livemint.
1 Jul 2010
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UID Act may be released for debate, may be introduced in monsoon sessionAn article by Karen Leigh & Surabhi Agarwal in livemint on June 30, 2010.
25 Jun 2010
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Activists welcome privacy Bill, but point out concernsExperts have welcomed the government's move to bring in a law for protecting individual privacy, amid concerns about the potential misuse of personal data it is collecting to execute social welfare and security schemes.
15 Jun 2010
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Peeping Toms In Your InboxNothing’s safe any more—not your mobile number, nor your e-mail—as they’re put on offer for the benefit of telemarketers, writes Namrata Joshi and Neha Bhatt in an article published in the Outlook.