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Privacy
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1 Dec 2011
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Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-CounterfeitingThe seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash responded to a presentation by Prof. Pierre Sirinelli of …
24 Nov 2011
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Is Facebook tracking your virtual footprints?Social media experts claim number of cases of privacy violations against the site has increased in past few months; Facebook rubbishes the allegations. This article by Sheetal Sukhija was published in MidDay on 22 November 2011.
17 Nov 2011
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The 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series — A Post-event ReportThe Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), organised the 2nd IJLT-CIS Lecture Series on the 21st and 22nd of May 2011 at the National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. …
24 Oct 2011
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Privacy & Sexual MinoritiesDanish Sheikh examines the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi …
3 Oct 2011
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UID: Questions without Answers – A Talk by Usha RamanathanUID enrolment is in full swing, providing an official identification to millions of Indians, yet there are numerous unanswered questions. A public talk on UID was held at the Institute of Science, Bangalore on September 6, 2011. Usha …
22 Sep 2011
22 Sep 2011
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Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy AnalysesPrivacy and security are often presented as zero-sum outcomes with respect to issues affecting Internet governance. This dichotomous treatment often results in policy outcomes that directly limit access and rights. The meanings of privacy …
23 Aug 2011
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In the Right CircleI’ve been on Google Plus for a few weeks now. In the beginning, it felt like showing up early at a much-talked-up party. There was a small scatter of people, poking around, examining the place, making preliminary conversation with the few …
23 Aug 2011
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IISc students boycott UID, don’t want Big Brother to keep watchThe programme doesn’t have statutory backing. It is still in parliament
22 Aug 2011
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Whole Body Imaging and Privacy Concerns that FollowLaw student at the National University of Juridical Sciences, and intern for Privacy India, Srishti Goyal compares, contrasts, and critiques the Whole Body Imaging practices found in the US, the UK, and Australia, and makes recommendations …
22 Aug 2011
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IP Addresses and Expeditious Disclosure of Identity in IndiaIn this research, Prashant Iyengar reviews the statutory mechanism regulating the retention and disclosure of IP addresses by Internet companies in India. Prashant provides a compilation of anecdotes on how law enforcement authorities in …
22 Aug 2011
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Financial Inclusion and the UIDSince 2009, when Nandan Nilekani began to envision and implement the Unique Identification Project, the UID authority has promoted the UID/Aadhaar scheme as a tool of development for India - arguing that an identity will assist in bringing …
22 Aug 2011
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Cyber Crime & PrivacyIndia is a growing area in the field of active Internet usage with 71 million Internet users.
10 Aug 2011
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CCTV in UniversitiesBasic Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Infrastructure is used to observe movements from a central room, and consists of one or more video cameras that transmit video and audio images to a set of monitors or video recorders.
9 Aug 2011
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Tired of tele-marketing calls? Act on privacy right: ExpertsAnnoyed with unsolicited calls from insurance and banking companies? Under the proposed Right to Privacy Act, such calls would be considered a violation and the company responsible penalised up to Rs 5 lakh. The draft Right to Privacy Bill …
9 Aug 2011
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Re-thinking Key EscrowWould you make duplicates of your house keys and hand them over to the local police authority? And if so, would you feel safe? Naturally, one would protest this invasion of privacy. Similarly, would it be justified for the government to …
9 Aug 2011
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Nothing unique about this identityRelying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking peeping tom to install your window blinds, opined, not long ago, the American poet and novelist John Perry Barlow once. The statement attains significance in the context of …
7 Aug 2011
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Better Understanding of the Idea of Privacy SoughtUnderstanding the ways in which an individual's privacy is violated will help provide a better definition of privacy in India. At a public conference called ‘Privacy Matters' held at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) here …
25 Jul 2011
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UID: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear?Isn’t it interesting that authorities ask you about your identity and you end up showing your proof of existence! Isn’t this breaching into one’s personal life? Why so much transparency only from the public side? Why can’t the government be …
24 Jul 2011
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An Overview of DNA Labs in IndiaDNA fingerprinting has become the most precise and technologically advanced method for identifying crimes such as murder, kidnapping, robbery and rape. Police and judicial authorities and in some cases even private parties retain this in …
23 Jul 2011
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Video Surveillance and Its Impact on the Right to PrivacyThe need for video surveillance has grown in this technologically driven era as a mode of law enforcement. Video Surveillance is very useful to governments and law enforcement to maintain social control, recognize and monitor threats, and …
23 Jul 2011
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Consumer Privacy in e-CommerceLooking at the larger picture of national security versus consumer privacy, Sahana Sarkar says that though consumer privacy is important in the world of digital technology, individuals must put aside some of their civil liberties when it …
21 Jul 2011
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Privacy Matters, Guwahati — Event ReportOn June 23, a public seminar on “Privacy Matters” was held at the Don Bosco Institute in Karhulli, Guwahati. It was organised by IDRC, Society in Action Group, IDEA Chirang, an NGO initiative working with grassroots initiatives in Assam, …
20 Jul 2011
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Right to Privacy Bill 2010 — A Few CommentsEarlier this year, in February 2011, Rajeev Chandrasekhar introduced the Right to Privacy Bill, 2010 in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill is meant to “provide protection to the privacy of persons including those who are in public life”. Though the …
19 Jul 2011
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Privacy & Media LawIn her research, Sonal Makhija, a Bangalore-based lawyer, tries to delineate the emerging privacy concerns in India and the existing media norms and guidelines on the right to privacy. The research examines the existing media norms …
18 Jul 2011
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When Data Means Privacy, What Traces Are You Leaving Behind?How do you know yourself to be different from others? What defines the daily life that you live and the knowledge you produce in the span of this life? Is all that information yours or are you a mere stakeholder on behalf of the State whose …
15 Jul 2011
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My Experiment with Scam BaitingToday, as I am sure many of you have experienced, Internet scams are widespread and very deceptive. As part of my research into privacy and the Internet, I decided to follow a scam and attempt to fully understand how Internet scams work, …
6 Jul 2011
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The Walls Have EarsThe proposed Privacy Bill seems skewed towards the state rather than the citizen, writes Saikat Datta. This news was published in the Outlook magazine, issue, July 11, 2011.
5 Jul 2011
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Aadhaar’s moment of truthIt’s time for the unique identity project to answer tough questions it has dodged so far, writes MA Arun in the Deccan Herald.
3 Jul 2011
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Sorry Wrong NumberThe government’s ambitious project to give a unique identification number to every Indian citizen is running woefully behind schedule. T.V. Jayan investigates the problems that beset the project. The news was published in the Telegraph on 3 …