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Privacy
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26 Mar 2013
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The Privacy (Protection) Bill 2013: A Citizen's DraftThe Centre for Internet and Society has been researching privacy in India since 2010 with the objective of raising public awareness around privacy, completing in depth research, and driving a privacy legislation in India. As part of this …
26 Mar 2013
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Future of Privacy in IndiaDSCI and ICOMP are organizing a meet on Privacy at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi on April 5, 2013. Sunil Abraham will be participating in this event as a speaker.
26 Mar 2013
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Driving in the Surveillance Society: Cameras, RFID tags and Black Boxes...In this post, Maria Xynou looks at red light cameras, RFID tags and black boxes used to monitor vehicles in India.
20 Mar 2013
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Global Partners Meeting @ LondonPrivacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating …
19 Mar 2013
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Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 AnalysisJeremy Gruber from the Council for Responsible Genetics, US provides an analysis of the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012. He says that India’s updated 2012 Human DNA Profiling Bill offers largely superficial changes from its predecessor, the …
18 Mar 2013
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Workshop on the Unique Identity Number (UID), the National Population Register (NPR) and Governance: What will happen to our data?On March 2nd, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society and the Say No to UID campaign organized a workshop to discuss the present state of the UID and NPR schemes. Some of the questions which were addressed included ´How do the UID and NPR …
16 Mar 2013
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New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on AadhaarThe Indian Government is going ahead with a new project dubbed RIC that will effectively undermine the existing UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority of India project and will cost a whopping $1 billion.
15 Mar 2013
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Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubtsTwo separate organizations are capturing biometric data of over 1 billion Indians, creating fresh doubts in the government's justification to catalogue citizens.
15 Mar 2013
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Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillanceIn this post, Maria Xynou looks at some of DARPA´s artificial intelligence surveillance technologies in regards to the right to privacy and their potential future use in India.
15 Mar 2013
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A Comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012In this post, Maria Xynou gives us a comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012.
14 Mar 2013
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Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and GovernanceThis post examines the UID, NPR and Governance as it exists in India. The background note gives a summary of what is the NPR, the legal grounding of NPR, its objectives, and the information which could be collected under the NPR. The post …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
29 Jan 2013
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Surveillance Camp: Privatized State SurveillanceThis is the second in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF’s Surveillance Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
16 Jan 2013
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Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human RightsThese principles were developed by Privacy International and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and seek to define an international standard for the surveillance of communications. The Centre for Internet and Society has been contributing …
3 Jan 2013
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Indian government websites: Gold mine for cybercriminalsIf you are a cybercriminal trying to commit identity theft or digitally impersonate a citizen, you have help from the unlikeliest of sources — the Government of India.
28 Dec 2012
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Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping PointsA symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur …
21 Dec 2012
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State Surveillance and Human Rights CampA two-day conference was held in Rio on December 13 and 14 at Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event and made a presentation on MLATS and International Cooperation for Law Enforcement Purposes.
19 Nov 2012
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Privacy in the Social Networked WorldThe Asian Privacy Scholars Network 2nd International Conference was hosted by the Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network, November 19 - 20, 2012. Elonnai …
19 Nov 2012
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India ranks second globally in accessing private details of usersAccording to the latest transparency report released by Google, India ranks second in the world for accessing private details of its citizens, only after the U.S. The Google report lists out requests it received from governments across the …
15 Nov 2012
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India second in requesting user info: GoogleIndia is at second place after the US in terms of the government requests for user data from Google