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Internet Governance
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16 Apr 2014
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South African Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013As the rapid spread of technology in developing countries allows exponentially increasing availability of and access to personal data through automatic data processing, governments are beginning to recognize the necessity to evolve policies …
15 Apr 2014
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Privacy Law in India: A Muddled Field - IThe absence of a statute expressing the legislative will of a democracy to forge a common understanding of privacy is a matter of concern, says BHAIRAV ACHARYA in the first of a two part series.
14 Apr 2014
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Very Big BrotherThe Centre for Internet and Society, the organization I work for, currently serves on a committee established by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology in January 2013. The committee has …
14 Apr 2014
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Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy BillFollowing our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to …
14 Apr 2014
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Net Neutrality, Free Speech and the Indian Constitution - IIn this post, I will explore net neutrality in the context of Indian law and the Indian Constitution.
14 Apr 2014
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Lok sabha polls: Social media companies launch special pages for pollsInternet and social media giants such as Google and Facebook have launched special campaigns, pages and services around the Indian Lok Sabha elections to make the most of the world's largest democratic exercise that kicked off on Monday.
13 Apr 2014
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No party's got a clear stand, Aadhaar's fate hangs in balanceA non-UPA government for sure will review the multi-crore UID programme, but none of the parties have yet talked about scrapping it.
12 Apr 2014
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Parties give short shrift to privacyBoth the Congress and BJP vision documents disappoint, but the real surprise is the CPI-M document that deals with cyber issues in a substantial manner.
11 Apr 2014
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The Critical Life of InformationNishant Shah and Malavika Jayaram will be speaking at the event organized by Yale University on April 11, 2014.
6 Apr 2014
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The Take Down of Free Speech OnlineAs part of a study to access rate of compliance, in 2011, the Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore sent frivolous “take down” requests to seven prominent intermediaries. The study showed exactly how easy it is to take down online …
4 Apr 2014
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Who Governs the Internet? Implications for Freedom and National SecurityThe second half of last year has been quite momentous for Internet governance thanks to Edward Snowden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became aware that they were targets of US surveillance for …
4 Apr 2014
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Should Nandan Nilekani's Aadhaar project, for identity proof and welfare delivery, exist at all?The foundation of Aadhaar—a Congress flagship project to give every Indian a unique identity number and then use it to deliver services—has been under assault in the past three months.
4 Apr 2014
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Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet PolicyThis post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in …
3 Apr 2014
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The politics of FacebookWith the social media becoming an important political battleground, is Facebook affecting friendships and trying to influence our political leanings?
3 Apr 2014
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New privacy Bill more refined & has wider ambit, say expertsBut creates wide exceptions for government agencies.
3 Apr 2014
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Marco Civil da Internet: Brazil’s ‘Internet Constitution’On March 25, 2014, Brazil's lower house of parliament passed bill no. 2126/2011, popularly known as Marco Civil da Internet. The Marco Civil is a charter of Internet user-rights and service provider responsibilities, committed to freedom of …
1 Apr 2014
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Two Indians in Global Commission on Web GovernanceTwo Indians are among 25 internationally recognised experts named to assist a global body in identifying and prioritising web governance and Internet policy-related issues.
31 Mar 2014
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Leaked Privacy Bill: 2014 vs. 2011The Centre for Internet and Society has recently received a leaked version of the draft Privacy Bill 2014 that the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has drafted.
31 Mar 2014
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Intermediary Liability ResourcesWe bring you a list of intermediary resources as part of research on internet governance. This blog post will be updated on an ongoing basis.
31 Mar 2014
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India's social media election battleAhead of the general elections, political parties in India are attempting to woo voters on social media for the first time.
30 Mar 2014
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The Age of ShameThe ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where …
28 Mar 2014
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Governance issues for private data storesMalavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event co-hosted by Harvard Faculty Club and Web Science Trust at 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge on March 28, 2014.
27 Mar 2014
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Cyber Dialogue Conference 2014The Cyber Dialogue conference, presented by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, will convene an influential mix of global leaders from government, civil society, …
27 Mar 2014
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CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public ForumThis was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process …
26 Mar 2014
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Panel Discussion – Intermediary Liability & Freedom of Expression in IndiaBhairav Acharya will participate in a panel discussion on ‘Intermediary Liability & Freedom of Expression’ on Wednesday evening (26th March 2014) from 6:00 pm onwards at the India International Centre Annex. The event is organized by the …
22 Mar 2014
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Twenty-five distinguished experts appointed to Global Commission on Internet Governance’s Research Advisory NetworkTwenty-five distinguished scholars and internationally recognized experts have been appointed to the Global Commission on Internet Governance’s (GCIG) new Research Advisory Network (RAN).
22 Mar 2014
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ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and BeyondA conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00. Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic …
21 Mar 2014
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No to homosexuals, yes to their voteThe ad appears at the bottom of the page. It has BJP’s symbol and Modi’s photograph displayed prominently.
21 Mar 2014
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C-DoT's surveillance system making enemies on internetReporters Without Boundaries says it gives unbridled power to law- enforcement agencies to snoop on citizens.
20 Mar 2014
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Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp DealPrivacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as …