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Blog Entry Privacy and Security Implications of Public Wi-Fi - A Case Study
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 09, 2016 — last modified Dec 12, 2016 12:29 PM — filed under: , , ,
Today internet is an essential necessity in everyday work and recognizing its vital role, governments across the world including the Indian government, are giving access to public Wi-Fi. However, use of public Wi-Fi brings along with it certain privacy and security risks. This research paper analyses some of these concerns, along with the privacy policies of key ISPs in India providing public Wi-Fi service in Bangalore-namely D-VoIS and Tata Docomo, as a case study to provide suitable recommendations.
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Blog Entry Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 14, 2016 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
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Blog Entry Adoption of Standards in Smart Cities - Way Forward for India
by Vanya Rakesh — published Mar 19, 2016 — last modified Apr 11, 2016 03:04 AM — filed under: , , , ,
With a paradigm shift towards the concept of “Smart Cities’ globally, as well as India, such cities have been defined by several international standardization bodies and countries, however, there is no uniform definition adopted globally. The glue that allows infrastructures to link and operate efficiently is standards as they make technologies interoperable and efficient.
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Blog Entry Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World : Webinar
by Vanya Rakesh — published Sep 26, 2015 — last modified Oct 04, 2015 11:09 AM — filed under: ,
On 10th September 2015, the OGP Support Unit, the Open Government Guide, and the World Bank held a webinar on “Open Governance and Privacy in a Post-Snowden World” presented by Carly Nyst, Independent consultant and former Legal Director of Privacy International and Javier Ruiz, Policy Director of Open Rights Group. This is a summary of the key issues that were discussed by the speakers and the participants.
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Blog Entry DNA Research
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 02, 2015 — last modified Jul 21, 2016 11:02 AM — filed under: ,
In 2006, the Department of Biotechnology drafted the Human DNA Profiling Bill. In 2012 a revised Bill was released and a group of Experts was constituted to finalize the Bill. In 2014, another version was released, the approval of which is pending before the Parliament. This legislation will allow the government of India to Create a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board for the purposes of forensic research and analysis. Here is a collection of our research on privacy and security concerns related to the Bill.
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Blog Entry Sectoral Privacy Research
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 02, 2015 — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:46 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy in India since the year 2010, with special focus on the following issues.
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File RTI regarding Smart Cities Mission in India
by Vanya Rakesh — published Apr 21, 2016 — last modified Apr 21, 2016 02:12 AM
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Blog Entry ISO/IEC/ JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups Meeting, Jaipur
by Vanya Rakesh — published Oct 31, 2015 — last modified Dec 21, 2015 02:38 AM — filed under: ,
I attended this event held from October 26 to 30, 2015 in Jaipur.
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Blog Entry RTI response regarding the UIDAI
by Vanya Rakesh — published Dec 12, 2015 — last modified Dec 22, 2015 02:57 AM — filed under: ,
This is a response to the RTI filed regarding UIDAI
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Blog Entry Responsible Data Forum: Discussion on the Risks and Mitigations of releasing Data
by Vanya Rakesh — published Aug 26, 2015 — last modified Sep 06, 2015 02:29 PM — filed under:
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