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Blog Entry Comparison of Section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and Section 4 of the Identification Act Revised Statute of Canada
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 03, 2014 — filed under: ,
A comparison of section 35(1) of the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, section 4 of the Identification Act, Revised Statute of Canada, and a review of international best practices.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level Concerns
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 12, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:36 PM — filed under: , ,
In 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 leaked. The February 2012 Bill was drafted by the Department of Biotechnology. Another working draft of the Bill was created in April 2012. The most recent version of the Bill seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level.
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Blog Entry Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and Governance
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 14, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2014 05:03 AM — filed under: , ,
This 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 also throws light on the UID, its objectives, process of enrollment in UID, how UID is being adopted by different states in India, and finally the differences and controversies in UID and NPR.
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Blog Entry Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights
by Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 16, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:55 PM — filed under: , ,
These 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 feedback to the principles.
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File Rethinking Privacy Principles
by Elonnai Hickok — published Sep 11, 2017
Located in Internet Governance / Files
Blog Entry Here’s why we need a lot more discussion on India’s new DNA Profiling Bill
by Elonnai Hickok — published Aug 21, 2017 — filed under: ,
The DNA Profiling Bill 2017 is still missing a number of safeguards that would enable individual rights. The implications of creating regional and national level DNA databanks need to be fully understood and publicly debated.
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Blog Entry Is Data Protection Enough?
by Elonnai Hickok — published Apr 05, 2011 — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:28 AM — filed under: ,
The following note looks briefly at different sides of the privacy debate, and asks the question whether a Data Protection law is enough privacy protection for India.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog / Privacy
Blog Entry Seventh Privacy Round-table
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 20, 2013 — filed under: ,
On October 19, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Data Security Council of India, and Privacy International held a “Privacy Round-table” in New Delhi at the FICCI Federation House.
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Blog Entry Privacy, Free/Open Source, and the Cloud
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:50 AM — filed under: , ,
A look into the questions that arise in concern to privacy and cloud computing, and how open source plays into the picture.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog / Privacy
Blog Entry Data Retention in India
by Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 30, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:51 PM — filed under: , ,
As 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 contested practice with regards to privacy, as many governments require service providers to retain more data for extensive time periods, for security purposes. Many argue that the scope of the retention is becoming disproportional to the purpose of investigating crimes.
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