Programme
Internet Governance
Privacy, free speech, surveillance, digital identity and cybersecurity. 3,058 items.
30 Oct 2016
News
Bridging the gap: Tech giants bring the internet to women in rural IndiaThis Diwali is going to be a cracker of a festival for Nisha Chanderwal, a second year BA student.
30 Oct 2016
News
Behind Modi’s Heartwarming Diwali Ad for Soldiers, An App That’s Primed for Political MessagingThe campaign, which allows users to send Modi quotes on themes like Ayodhya and the perfidy of the Opposition, raises questions about the boundaries between government, party and personal promotion.
23 Oct 2016
News
Some Key Words Are MissingGoogle manipulating search results? The Competition Commission is on its case.
22 Oct 2016
Blog post
How Long Have Banks Known About The Debit Card Fraud?The recent security breach in an Indian payment switch provider, confirmed earlier this week by the National Payments Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), has forced domestic banks into damage control mode over the past few days.
21 Oct 2016
News
The Big Debit Card Breach: Three Things Card Holders Need To UnderstandA total of 32 lakh debit cards across 19 banks could have been compromised on account of a purported fraud, the National Payment Corporation of India said in a statement.
21 Oct 2016
Blog post
RBI Directions on Account AggregatorsThe Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Directions for account aggregator services in India seem to lay great emphasis on data security by allowing only direct access between institutions and do away with data scraping techniques.
21 Oct 2016
News
Intelligence agencies will not have open access to Aadhaar data: UIDAI chiefIntelligence agencies will not have free access to Aadhaar data, a top government official said on Thursday, looking to assuage fears of abuse of personal information.
20 Oct 2016
Blog post
MLATs and the proposed Amendments to the US Electronic Communications Privacy ActIn continuance of our blog post on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), we examine a new approach to international bilateral cooperation being suggested in the United States, by creating a mechanism for certain foreign governments to …
17 Oct 2016
News
New regulations in place; Aadhaar Card records to be preserved for 7 yrs by CentreUIDAI chief executive office ABP Pandey said that the concerns regarding Aadhar card-related benefits were "exaggerated" and that the agency will keep the records in case any disputes arise in the future.
17 Oct 2016
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Govt to keep Aadhaar record for 7 years, activists worriedThe government will keep for seven years a record of all the services and benefits availed using the Aadhaar number, say new rules, prompting fears that the database could be used for surveillance.
16 Oct 2016
Blog post
Request for Specifics: Rebuttal to UIDAIResponding to the Unique Identification Authority of India’s article that found “serious mathematical errors” in “Flaws in the UIDAI Process” (EPW 12 March 2016), the main mathematical argument used to arrive at the number of duplicates in …
16 Oct 2016
News
Here is why government twitter handles have been posting offensive and partisan messagesYou have failed us big time Mr Kejriwal, for your petty political gains you can become headlines for Pakistani press,” read a tweet on October 5 from @IndiaPostOffice, the official twitter handle of the Indian postal service.
15 Oct 2016
Blog post
IANA Transition: A Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes?Transparency is key to engaging meaningfully with ICANN. CIS has filed the most number of Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP) requests with ICANN, covering a range of subjects including its relationships with contracted …
15 Oct 2016
News
Hakon 2016Udbhav Tiwari attended attended Hakon 2016, a conference held between September 30 and October 2, 2016 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India,on behalf of CIS under the Hewlett Cyber Security Project.
14 Oct 2016
News
Tech companies like Gmail, WhatsApp may be asked to store user informationThe government is moving to formulate rules that will require technology ‘intermediaries’— including email services like Gmail, chat apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat or even ecommerce firms like Amazon — to retain user information, a …
10 Oct 2016
News
National Cyber Defence Summit 2016National Cyber Defence Summit – 2016 was organized by the National Cyber Safety and Security Standards in association with State & Central Governments, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, AICTE & Anna University on 30 September and 1 …
8 Oct 2016
Blog post
Internet Democratisation: IANA Transition Leaves Much to be DesiredAt best, the IANA transition is symbolic of Washington’s oversight over ICANN coming to an end. It is also symbolic of the empowerment of the global multistakeholder community. In reality, it fails to do either meaningfully.
6 Oct 2016
Blog post
Services like TwitterSeva aren’t the silver bullets they are made out to beTwitterSeva is great, but it should not be considered a sufficient replacement for proper e-governance systems. This is because there are several serious shortcomings with the TwitterSeva approach, and it is no wonder that enthusiastic …
6 Oct 2016
News
If all goes well, Indian IT Act may enter 21st centuryThe government is aiming to refresh the main law governing information technology by giving it a revamp which it hopes will bring it in tune with the times and address criticisms about its weaknesses, a senior official said on condition of …
5 Oct 2016
News
Not Everyone Plays by the Rules in the Digital Playground: Addressing Online Child Sexual ExploitationJapreet Grewal spoke at a panel on 'Prevention through Awareness and Education' at a meeting titled 'Not Everyone Plays by the Rules in the Digital Playground:Addressing Online Child Sexual Exploitation' that was organised by the …
5 Oct 2016
News
An 'app'ening worldA ‘forward’ has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp about the privacy concerns relating to that instant messaging app; it’s asking for permission to share user data with Facebook.
2 Oct 2016
News
Eye on MumbaiThe feeds will be beamed to a video wall that stretches 21 feet across at the police’s command and control room.
1 Oct 2016
Event
Workshop on Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights (Delhi, October 01)CIS welcomes you to participate in the workshop we are organising on Saturday, October 01 at India Habitat Centre, Delhi, to discuss benefits, harms, and human rights implications of big data technologies, and explore potential research …
27 Sep 2016
News
WhatsApp ruling: Experts seek privacy lawOn August 25, Whatsapp updated its policy to share user content with social network; the decision opened new monetisation models for the messaging app.
26 Sep 2016
Blog post
Right to Food Campaign, Ranchi Convention, 2016The Right to Food Campaign held its 2016 Convention in Ranchi during September 23-25, 2016. While three years have elapsed since the passage of the National Food Security Act, despite improvements in the Public Distribution System (PDS), …
25 Sep 2016
News
When the war’s on WhatsAppSlick, jingoistic videos are whipping up pro-war rhetoric on social media after the Uri terror attack.
23 Sep 2016
News
Young Scholars' Programme, CPRSouth 2016Rohini Lakshané took part in the Young Scholars' Programme organized by Communication Policy Research South from September 6 to 7, 2016 in Zanzibar.
23 Sep 2016
News
LITD 17 Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards MeetingVanya Rakesh attended the LITD-17 committee meeting (committee on Information Systems Security and Biometrics) organised by the Bureau of Indian Standards on 23 September 2016 in Bengaluru.
23 Sep 2016
News
First Working Group Meeting on "An Internet Free and Secure"Vidushi Marda attended a face-to-face meeting organized by the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) on September 7, 2016 in Strasbourg. The FOC has three working groups (WG), and Vidushi is part of the first WG - An Internet Free and Secure.
22 Sep 2016
News
The Future of Privacy in the Age of Big DataA study tour on privacy and big data was organised by Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom from September 3 to 10, 2016 in Berlin and Hamburg. Vanya Rakesh was one of the participants from South Asia who went for the tour.