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Internet Governance
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Content takedown and users' rightsAfter Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable …
12 Feb 2020
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Comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.
2 Jan 2020
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Decrypting Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS) and Delineating Related Privacy ConcernsArindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the first of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial …
2 Jan 2020
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Automated Facial Recognition Systems and the Mosaic Theory of Privacy: The Way ForwardArindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the third of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial …
2 Jan 2020
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Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS): Responding to Related Privacy ConcernsArindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the second of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated …
31 Dec 2019
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Extra-Territorial Surveillance and the Incapacitation of Human RightsThis paper was published in Volume 12 (2) of the NUJS Law Review.
17 Dec 2019
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ICANN takes one step forward in its human rights and accountability commitmentsAkriti Bopanna and Ephraim Percy Kenyanito take a look at ICANN's Implementation Assessment Report for the Workstream 2 recommendations and break down the key human rights considerations in it. Akriti chairs the Cross Community Working …
16 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019
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WhatsApp spy attack and afterBengaluru experts analyse the Pegasus snooping scandal, and provide advice on what you can do about the gaping holes in your mobile phone security.
15 Dec 2019
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Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment | UN Women + SEWAOn December 06, 2019, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi participated in a "Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Opportunities for Women in Informal Economy and in …
15 Dec 2019
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Power over privacy: New Personal Data Protection Bill fails to really protect the citizen’s right to privacyNikhil Pahwa throws light on the new personal data protection bill.
15 Dec 2019
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Outrage As Privileged IITians Use Tech To Spy On SweepersSome members of the housekeeping staff at IIT Ropar were put under round the clock surveillance during working hours for many days in February this year without their consent. IIT Ropar Director Prof S K Das has ordered a probe into the …
15 Dec 2019
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India’s record on internet shutdown gets bleaker; now blocked in 2 NE statesIndia reported over 100 internet shutdown in 2018, according to an annual study of Freedom House, a US-based non-profit research organization.
15 Dec 2019
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IETF106Gurshabad Grover participated at IETF106, which was held in Singapore 16-22 November, 2019.
12 Dec 2019
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In Twitter India’s Arbitrary Suspensions, a Question of What Constitutes a Public SpaceA discussion is underway about the way social media platforms may have to operate within the tenets of constitutional protections of free speech.
5 Dec 2019
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Why having more CCTV cameras does not translate to crime preventionCan technology substitute addressing social, psychological, economic and other individual factors that largely lead to criminality? And what are the perils of over-reliance on technology to fight crime?
5 Dec 2019
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Cyber security tips for small businessesIt is important to have good cyber security practices, experts recommend.
3 Dec 2019
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A Deep Dive into Content Takedown TimeframesSince the 1990s, internet usage has seen a massive growth, facilitated in part, by growing importance of intermediaries, that act as gateways to the internet. Intermediaries such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs), web-hosting providers, …
28 Nov 2019
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Proposals to regulate social media run into multiple roadblocksThe Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Pegasus spyware attack on WhatsApp and the growing misuse of social media platforms to spread misinformation have made governments world over, including in India, realise the limitations of existing laws …
28 Nov 2019
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Project on Gender, Health Communications and Online Activism with City UniversityCIS is a partner on the project 'Gender, Health Communications and Online Activism in the Digital Age'. The project is lead by Dr. Carolina Matos, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Media in the Department of Sociology at City University.
18 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019
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India facial recognition: How effective will it be?India is trying to build what could be the world's largest facial recognition system.
15 Nov 2019
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Cyber law experts asks why CERT-In removed advisory warning about WhatsApp vulnerabilityOn the missing web page note, CERT-In had provided a detailed explanation of the vulnerability, which could be exploited by an attacker by making a decoy voice call to a target.
15 Nov 2019
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Activists demand judicial probe into WhatsApp snoopingCalls for Parliamentary supervision over Government interception, legal hacking.