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Blog Entry First Privacy and Surveillance Roundtable
by Anandini K Rathore — published Jul 18, 2014 — last modified Aug 09, 2014 04:13 AM — filed under: ,
The Privacy and Surveillance Roundtables are a CIS initiative, in partnership with the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), as well as local partners. From June 2014 – November 2014, CIS and COAI will host seven Privacy and Surveillance Roundtable discussions across multiple cities in India. The Roundtables will be closed-door deliberations involving multiple stakeholders.
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Blog Entry Five Frequently Asked Questions about the Amended ITRs
by Chinmayi Arun — published Jan 28, 2013 — last modified Jan 30, 2013 05:36 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
This piece discusses the five major questions that have been the subject of debate after the World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT). The politics surrounding the WCIT are not discussed here but it must be kept in mind that they have played a significant role in the outcome of the conference and in some of the debates about it.
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Five Nations, One Future?
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 01, 2015 — last modified Jul 18, 2015 02:34 AM — filed under:
The Silicon Valley model for success - what Bangalore, Chile, London and Rwanda want to learn from California.
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Blog Entry Fixing Aadhaar: Security developers' task is to trim chances of data breach
by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 10, 2018 — last modified Jan 10, 2018 04:47 PM — filed under: , ,
The task before a security developer is not only to reduce the probability of identity breach but to eliminate certain occurrences.
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Blog Entry Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act
by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 28, 2012 — last modified Nov 30, 2012 06:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act criminalizes “causing annoyance or inconvenience” online, among other things. A conviction for such an offence can attract a prison sentence of as many as three years.
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Flashpoint #TrollControl: Maneka versus NCW
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 09, 2016 — filed under: ,
Amidst the debate over controlling online trolls - the proposal by Union Women and Child Development Minister to curb violence against women on the internet has triggered a fight between the minister and the National Commission for Women (NCW).
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Blog Entry Flaws in the UIDAI Process
by Hans Varghese Mathews — published Mar 06, 2016 — last modified Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
The accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals whose identifiers match might be termed duplicands. When very many people are to be identified success can be measured by the (low) proportion of duplicands. The Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.
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For India’s complaints department, visit Facebook Live
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 25, 2017 — filed under: ,
Notebook: Social media cuts through red tape in a country beset by inertia.
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For sex workers, mobile phone becomes a double-edged sword
by Tushar Kaushik — published Jul 30, 2019 — filed under:
Our research on the use of mobile phones by sex workers, as part of the project on Feminist Information Infrastructure in collaboration with Sangama, was cited in an article in the Economic Times.
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Forecasting the Implications of the CLOUD Act Around the World
by Admin — published Sep 20, 2018 — last modified Sep 20, 2018 03:51 PM — filed under: ,
Elonnai Hickok participated in the event organized by the Global Network Initiative at the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. on September 18, 2018 as a speaker.
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