Topic
Public Accountability
112 items.
30 Jan 2012
News
Twitter’s Censorship Move Aimed at Regaining China?Twitter, the popular social networking site for micro-blogging, has announced it is open to content censorship and region-based filtering, if required by law. The service boasts nearly 300 million users from across the world. Vinod Yalburgi …
28 Jan 2012
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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill"On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present …
27 Jan 2012
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Google to change privacy policy to use personal info of usersIt is a warning for users of Google and other Social Networking sites. Who are using these sites for searching anything they want to know and sharing their personal life with friends, colleagues and relatives. If you have ever used Google …
23 Jan 2012
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The Quixotic Fight to Clean up the WebThe ongoing attempt to pre-screen online content won’t change anything. It will only drive netizens into the arms of criminals, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Tehelka Magazine, Vol 9, Issue 04, Dated 28 Jan 2012.
19 Jan 2012
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Indian Internet Lawsuit Puts Spotlight on Freedom of ExpressionIn India, Internet giants such as Google and Facebook are fighting a lawsuit after the government authorized their prosecution for online content on their sites deemed to be offensive. The case has put the spotlight on free speech in the …
17 Jan 2012
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Is India Ignoring its own Internet Protections?India’s information technology law of 2008 limits the liability of Internet companies for material posted on their Web sites by users, including anything government regulators deem objectionable. The firms are supposed to be notified of …
17 Jan 2012
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India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, FacebookIt's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't comply]," Justice Suresh Cait told Facebook and Google lawyers in India yesterday. …
16 Jan 2012
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India internet: clean-up or censorship?Is India going the way of China? Not when it comes to development indicators. Or enhanced infrastructure. Or economic power. But in another category at which Beijing excels: web censorship.
26 Dec 2011
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US Clampdown Worse than the Great FirewallIf you thought China’s Internet censorship was evil, think again. American moves to clean up the Web could hurt global surfers, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Tehelka, Volume 8, Issue 50, 17 December 2011.
22 Dec 2011
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Spy in the WebThe government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy.
22 Dec 2011
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India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship PlanIndia has the world's largest democracy, and one of the most rambunctious. Millions of its young people are cutting edge when it comes to high-tech. Yet the country is still very conservative by Western standards, and a government minister …
7 Dec 2011
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Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and ImpracticalThe Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if …
21 Jul 2011
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Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public SectorThe Transparency & Accountability Initiative has published a book called “Opening Government: A Guide to Best Practice in Transparency, Accountability and Civic Engagement across the Public Sector”. We at the Centre for Internet & Society …
9 Mar 2011
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RTI Applications on Blocking of WebsitesIn recent weeks, an increasing number of incidents have come to light on government-ordered blocking of websites. In one case involving Zone-H.org, it is clear who has ordered the block (a Delhi district court judge, as an interim order), …
18 Jul 2010
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Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010CIS analyses the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, from a public interest perspective to sift the good from the bad, and importantly to point out what crucial amendments should be considered but have not been so far.
16 Mar 2010
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CPOV : Wikipedia Research InitiativeThe Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. …
10 Dec 2009
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last MileIn the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he …
7 Oct 2009
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The ICANN-US DOC 'Affirmation of Commitments' - A Step Forward?On 30 September 2009, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) signed an Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) with the US Government's Department of Commerce. For those of us who are concerned that the Internet should serve …
29 Jul 2009
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Primer on the New IT ActWith this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments.
28 Jul 2009
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Letter to ICANN on NCSGThe Centre for Internet and Society sent the following mail to ICANN regarding their attempt to impose their own charter for a Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), instead of accepting the one drafted by the Noncommercial Users …
24 Jun 2009
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Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A ReportZainab Bawa reports on the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, on 17 June 2009, in collaboration with the …
31 Oct 2008
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i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet AccessNishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.