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Internet Governance
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13 Mar 2013
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Rethinking the Internet: The Way ForwardTelecom Italia and Financial Times are organizing this event at Telecom Italia Future Centre in Italy on March 21 and 22, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event.
13 Mar 2013
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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin MaclayColin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
12 Mar 2013
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Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level ConcernsIn 2007 the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill was piloted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, with the objective of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was …
12 Mar 2013
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An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, IndiaAn event at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) was organized on January 23, 2013. The all star team at CIS was awesome at organizing this event for Bitcoin. Live streaming, mainstream newspaper coverage and Twitter based Q&A made this …
6 Mar 2013
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Social media undermining journalistic credibility?The line separating journalists and bloggers is being increasingly blurred due to the growth of social media, said Nelson Moses, who was a panelist at a discussion on the credibility of social media as a journalistic tool.
4 Mar 2013
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Chidambaram to Talk Budget on Google+ HangoutIndian politicians are slowly warming up to social media.
3 Mar 2013
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UID has no legal sanctity, says lawyer-activist‘Iris scanning adopted for the UID project is flawed as the iris keeps changing’
3 Mar 2013
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People should resist enforcement of UID scheme, say expertsInternationally recognized expert on law and poverty Dr. Usha Ramanathan Saturday urged citizens of the country to question the enforcement of the UID scheme that has no legitimacy.
2 Mar 2013
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Foreign Funding of NGOsShould FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.
1 Mar 2013
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Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activistsA group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
28 Feb 2013
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Women in the IT Industry: Request for DataFor CIS's research on indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India, we have sent formal request for participation in a short survey to the six largest IT companies based in India. A copy of the letter of request and …
28 Feb 2013
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Research Initiative: Women in India's IT IndustryCIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software …
28 Feb 2013
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Don’t SLAPP free speechIIPM is proving adept at the tactical use of lawsuits to stifle criticism, despite safeguards. THE DEPARTMENT of Telecommunications, on 14 February, issued orders to block certain web pages critical of the Indian Institute of Planning and …
28 Feb 2013
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"All Indian Enterprises should Be Very Worried": Centre for Internet and SocietyThe DoT’s CERT team has successfully censored more than 70 URLs that didn’t particularly contain praises of IIPM. Amusingly, a URL containing a public notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in July 2012 was also blocked.
25 Feb 2013
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BigDog is Watching You! The Sci-fi Future of Animal and Insect DronesDo you think robotic aeroplanes monitoring us are scary enough? Wait until you read about DARPA´s new innovative and subtle way to keep us all under the microscope! This blog post presents a new reality of drones which is depicted in none …
22 Feb 2013
19 Feb 2013
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Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
19 Feb 2013
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The Omnishambles of UID, shrouded in its RTI opacityThe Centre for Internet & Society sponsored Colonel Mathew Thomas to hold a workshop at the fourth National Right to Information (RTI) organized by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, held in Hyderabad from February 15 …
19 Feb 2013
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Surveillance Camp IV: Disproportionate State Surveillance - A Violation of PrivacyThis is the fourth in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF's State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This article has been co-written with Elonnai Hickok — Centre for Internet …
18 Feb 2013
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Freedom of Expression GaggedThe use of law to bully people into silence, called ‘heckler’s veto’, is not unique to India, writes Chinmayi Arun in this op-ed published in Business Line on February 15, 2013.
16 Feb 2013
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Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked URLs by Department of Telecommunications (IIPM Edition)The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in its order dated February 14, 2013 has issued directions to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block seventy eight URLs. The block order has been issued as a result of a court order. …
13 Feb 2013
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Indian net service providers too play censorship tricksThe study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
13 Feb 2013
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Hate speech: ban or ignore?The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the …
13 Feb 2013
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Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in KashmirHacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
12 Feb 2013
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2012: Privacy Highlights in IndiaIn this blog post, Elonnai Hickok summarizes the top privacy moments of 2012 in India. In doing so she lists out the major ones like the Report of Group of Experts on Privacy, the RIM Standoff, the Nira Radia controversy, the Centralized …
8 Feb 2013
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Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to ArrestsOnline abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
6 Feb 2013
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Censorship and sensibility in IndiaThe past few weeks in India have seen films, an all-girl rock band, a fashion show, a Booker prize-winning novelist and a reputed academic become targets of harassment, legal action or threats of violence.
31 Jan 2013
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A Comparison of Indian Legislation to Draft International Principles on Surveillance of CommunicationsThis blog post is a comparison of the relevant Indian legislations allowing governmental access to communications and the Draft International Principles on Surveillance of Communications. The principles, first drafted in October 2012 and …
30 Jan 2013
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Data Retention in IndiaAs part of its privacy research, the Centre for Internet and Society has been researching upon data retention mandates from the Government of India and data retention practices by service providers. Globally, data retention has become a …
30 Jan 2013
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An innovative concept comes to the foreThere’s very little awareness about Bitcoin — a new digital currency and payment system, designed for the voting process of ‘Bitfilm 13’ — in the City. Aaron Koenig, the managing director at Bitfilm Networks Hamburg, addressed this issue …