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India To Let Private Companies Access Citizens’ Biometric Data
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 27, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
India, home to the world’s largest national biometric registry, plans to begin sharing citizens’ data with the country’s private companies and startups.
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Big Data Compilation
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 19, 2017
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last modified
Feb 26, 2017 04:18 PM
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Files
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Marathi Wikisource & Digitisation Workshop
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Feb 18, 2017
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last modified
Mar 05, 2017 02:34 AM
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filed under:
Marathi Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Marathi Wikisource
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) team on February 17 and 18, 2017. Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited and Jnana Prabhodini were the co-organizers. The discussions were held at Jnana Prabodhini, Sadashiv Peth, Pune on February 17 and C Trade Tower, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune on February 18, 2017.
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Blogs
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Digital illusions
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 16, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana.
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India's Aadhaar with biometric details of its billion citizens is making experts uncomfortable
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 14, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
"Indians in general have yet to understand the meaning and essence of privacy," says Member of Parliament, Tathagata Satpathy.
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Surveillance in India: Policy and Practice
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 13, 2017
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last modified
Mar 15, 2017 01:05 AM
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filed under:
Video,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy organized a brainstorming session on net neutrality on February 8, 2017 and a public seminar on surveillance in India the following day on February 9, 2017 in New Delhi. Pranesh Prakash gave a talk.
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Vidhi Doshi - Fingerprint Payments Prompt Privacy Fears in India (The Guardian)
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Vidhi Doshi
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published
Feb 10, 2017
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last modified
Feb 13, 2017 09:21 AM
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filed under:
Demonetisation,
Digital Payment,
Big Data,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics
This article by Vidhi Doshi on the use of Aadhaar-based payments by private companies in India was published by The Guardian on February 09, 2017. Sumandro Chattapadhyay is quoted in the article.
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Only 8.5pc of Wikipedia Editors are Women. How do we fix the Gender Gap on the Internet?
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by
Ting-Yi Chang
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published
Feb 09, 2017
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
Wikipedia,
Wikimedia
Women-related articles are generally shorter, more prone to deletion, and more likely to be peripheral pieces under male-centric articles.
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Blogs
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Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Feb 08, 2017
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last modified
Mar 05, 2017 01:31 AM
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filed under:
Marathi Wikipedia,
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Marathi Wikisource
A Marathi Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted by the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) on February 5, 2017 at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal in Pune.
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Crowdsourced innovation for government projects and services is easier said than done
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 07, 2017
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last modified
Feb 07, 2017 03:36 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Late January. The buzz was palpable at the MLR Convention Centre in South Bengaluru. Developers were streaming into 50p, a conference organised by HasGeek, which has curated technology forums since 2011. But this wasn't just one of the six HasGeek communions that the programmers attend annually. 50p put the spotlight on digital payments, which meant the gathering would be more diverse than anything before.
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