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India is building a biometric database for 1.3 billion people — and enrollment is mandatory
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 12, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Inside the buzzing enrollment agency, young professionals wearing slim-fitting jeans and lanyards around their necks tapped away at keyboards and fiddled with fingerprint scanning devices as they helped build the biggest and most ambitious biometric database ever conceived.
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News & Media
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34th SCCR: Observer Statements on Proposal for Analysis of Copyright related to the Digital Environment
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
May 30, 2017
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last modified
May 30, 2017 05:39 AM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
Observers made the following statements on GRULAC's proposal on analysis of copyright related to the digital environment on 5th May 2017.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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India-EU Proposed FTA
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 10, 2013
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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UID Project in India - Some Possible Ramifications
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by
Liliyan
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published
Aug 11, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:13 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Having a standard for decentralized ID verification rather than a centralized database that would more often than not be misused by various authorities will solve ID problems, writes Liliyan in this blog entry. These blog posts to be published in a series will voice the expert opinions of researchers and critics on the UID project and present its unique shortcomings to the reader.
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Blog
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Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Feb 10, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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filed under:
Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
We engaged in an e-mail conversation with Thomas Abraham, the managing director of Hachette India, on the issue of parallel importation of books into India. We thought it would be in the public interest to publish a substantive part of that conversation. In this post he points at great length how our arguments are faulty. While we still believe that he doesn't succeed, we hope this will clarify matters a bit.
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Blogs
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Benefits and Harms of "Big Data"
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by
Scott Mason
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published
Dec 30, 2015
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Big Data
Today the quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life.
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Blog
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 24, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 08:16 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
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News & Media
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Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:28 AM
A summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
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Blog
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AI Consumer Experiences
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 28, 2019
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Access to Knowledge
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Files
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Spectrum Management
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by
Snehashish Ghosh
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published
Oct 31, 2012
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last modified
Mar 15, 2013 07:07 AM
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filed under:
Telecom
Snehashish takes us through the entire process of spectrum management — auctioning and allocation process for all kinds of spectrum, the initial process of auctioning, how the bidders are selected, criterion for allocation, time taken to allocate, selection of band, interference issues, spectrum refarming, and spectrum reallocation.
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