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Blog Entry Open Letter to Members of the European Parliament of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee
by Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 23, 2013 — last modified Oct 23, 2013 05:00 AM — filed under: ,
An open letter was sent to the Members of the European Parliament of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee on the proposed EU Regulation. The letter was apart of an initiative that Privacy International and a number of other NGO's are undertaking.
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Blog Entry Policy Brief: Oversight Mechanisms for Surveillance
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 24, 2015 — filed under: ,
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Blog Entry Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A Report
by Elonnai Hickok — published Sep 08, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM — filed under:
On Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation explained the vision of the project and focused on the challenges involved in demographic and biometric identification, the technology adopted, and the enrolment process. Elonnai Hickok gives a report of his presentation in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Privacy and Banking: Do Indian Banking Standards Provide Enough Privacy Protection?
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:07 AM
Banking is one of the most risky sectors as far as privacy is concerned due to the highly sensitive and personal nature of information which is often exchanged, recorded and retained. Although India has RBI guidelines and legislations to protect data, this blog post looks at the extent of those protections, and what are the areas that still need to be addressed.
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Blog Entry Privacy and Governmental Databases
by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 23, 2011 — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:41 AM — filed under: ,
In our research we have found that most government databases are incrementally designed in response to developments and improvements that need to be incorporated from time to time. This method of architecting a system leads to a poorly designed database with many privacy risks such as: inaccurate data, incomplete data, inappropriate disclosure of data, inappropriate access to data, and inappropriate security over data. To address these privacy concerns it is important to analyze the problem that is being addressed from the perspective of potential and planned interoperability with other government databases. Below is a list of problems and recommendations concerning privacy, concerning government databases.
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Blog Entry Privacy and Telecommunications: Do We Have the Safeguards?
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:06 AM
All of you often come across unsolicited and annoying telemarketing calls/ SMS's, prank calls, pestering calls for payment, etc. Do we have any safeguards against them? This blog post takes a look at the various rules and regulations under Indian law to guard our privacy and confidentiality.
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Blog Entry Privacy Concerns in Whole Body Imaging: A Few Questions
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 17, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM — filed under:
Security versus Privacy...it is a question that the world is facing today when it comes to using the Whole Body Imaging technology to screen a traveller visually in airports and other places. By giving real life examples from different parts of the world Elonnai Hickok points out that even if the Government of India eventually decides to advocate the tight security measures with some restrictions then such measures need to balanced against concerns raised for personal freedom. She further argues that privacy is not just data protection but something which must be viewed holistically and contextually when assessing new policies.
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Blog Entry Privacy Perspectives on the 2012 -2013 Goa Beach Shack Policy
by Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 25, 2012 — last modified Oct 25, 2012 10:23 AM — filed under: ,
CCTVs in India are increasingly being employed by private organizations and the government in India as a way to increase security and prevent/ deter crime from taking place. When the government mandates the use of CCTV’s for this purpose, it often does so by means of a blunt policy mandate, requiring the installation of CCTV systems, but without any further clarification as to who should oversee the use of the cameras, what bodies should have access to the records, how access should be granted or obtained, and how long the recordings should be retained.
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Blog Entry Privacy Protection Bill, 2013 (With Amendments based on Public Feedback)
by Elonnai Hickok — published Jun 30, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 10:50 AM — filed under: , , ,
In 2013 CIS drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with FICCI and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India.
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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.
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