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Facebook's Fall from Grace: Arab Spring to Indian Winter
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Feb 11, 2016
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last modified
Feb 11, 2016 03:51 PM
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Social Media
Facebook’s Free Basics has been permanently banned in India! The Indian telecom regulator, TRAI has issued the world’s most stringent net neutrality regulation! To be more accurate, there is more to come from TRAI in terms of net neutrality regulations especially for throttling and blocking but if the discriminatory tariff regulation is anything to go by we can expect quite a tough regulatory stance against other net neutrality violations as well.
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Free Basics: Negating net parity
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jan 03, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
Researchers funded by Facebook were apparently told by 92 per cent of Indians they surveyed from large cities, with Internet connection and college degree, that the Internet “is a human right and that Free Basics can help bring Internet to all of India.” What a strange way to frame the question given that the Internet is not a human right in most jurisdictions.
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The Free Basics debate: Trai has a point in imposing temporary ban on net neutrality
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 25, 2015
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filed under:
Telecom,
Featured,
Net Neutrality
The argument against net neutrality in India is simple. Regulation cannot be based on dogma – evidence of harm must be provided before you can advocate for rules for ISPs and telecom operators.
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Facebook Shares 10 Key Facts about Free Basics. Here's What's Wrong with All 10 of Them.
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 25, 2015
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last modified
Dec 25, 2015 02:59 PM
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filed under:
Net Neutrality,
Featured,
Facebook,
Internet Governance,
Homepage
Shweta Sengar of Catch News spoke to Sunil Abraham about the recent advertisement by Facebook titled "What Net Neutrality Activists won't Tell You or, the Top 10 Facts about Free Basics". Sunil argued against the validity of all the 'top 10 facts'.
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News & Media
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CIS's Position on Net Neutrality
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 04, 2015
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last modified
Dec 09, 2015 01:06 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
As researchers committed to the principle of pluralism we rarely produce institutional positions. This is also because we tend to update our positions based on research outputs. But the lack of clarity around our position on network neutrality has led some stakeholders to believe that we are advocating for forbearance. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Please see below for the current articulation of our common institutional position.
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Connected Trouble
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Oct 28, 2015
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Big Data,
Privacy
The internet of things phenomenon is based on a paradigm shift from thinking of the internet merely as a means to connect individuals, corporations and other institutions to an internet where all devices in (insulin pumps and pacemakers), on (wearable technology) and around (domestic appliances and vehicles) humans beings are connected.
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Hits and Misses With the Draft Encryption Policy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 26, 2015
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filed under:
Open Standards,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
FOSS,
B2B
Most encryption standards are open standards. They are developed by open participation in a publicly scrutable process by industry, academia and governments in standard setting organisations (SSOs) using the principles of “rough consensus” – sometimes established by the number of participants humming in unison – and “running code” – a working implementation of the standard. The open model of standards development is based on the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) philosophy that “many eyes make all bugs shallow”.
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Bangalore Chapter Meet of DSCI
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 09, 2015
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filed under:
Cyber Security,
Event,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) will host the Bangalore Chapter Meeting of Data Security Council of India (DSCI) on September 26, 2015 at its Bangalore office in Domlur. The event will be held from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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Events
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Anonymity in Cyberspace
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 09, 2015
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last modified
Sep 09, 2015 01:31 AM
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Security: Privacy, Transparency and Technology
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Aug 19, 2015
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last modified
Sep 15, 2015 10:53 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Homepage
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been involved in privacy and data protection research for the last five years. It has participated as a member of the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, which has influenced the draft Privacy Bill being authored by the Department of Personnel and Training. It has organised 11 multistakeholder roundtables across India over the last two years to discuss a shadow Privacy Bill drafted by CIS with the participation of privacy commissioners and data protection authorities from Europe and Canada.
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