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Why is the UIDAI cracking down on individuals that hoard Aadhaar data?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 17, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Private firms' offer to print Aadhaar details on plastic card a breach of law.
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Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things Offline
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 17, 2016
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last modified
Jun 05, 2016 03:26 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
As governments use their power to erase what they do not approve of from the web, cloud storage will not be enough.
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Aadhaar Act and its Non-compliance with Data Protection Law in India
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Apr 14, 2016
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last modified
Apr 18, 2016 11:43 AM
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filed under:
UID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics
This post compares the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016, with India's data protection regime as articulated in the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
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FAQ on the Aadhaar Project and the Bill
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by
Elonnai Hickok, Vanya Rakesh, and Vipul Kharbanda
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published
Apr 13, 2016
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last modified
Apr 13, 2016 02:06 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics,
Homepage
This FAQ attempts to address the key questions regarding the Aadhaar/UIDAI project and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 (henceforth, Bill). This is neither a comprehensive list of questions, nor does it contain fully developed answers. We will continue to add questions to this list, and edit/expand the answers, based on our ongoing research. We will be grateful to receive your comments, criticisms, evidences, edits, suggestions for new answers, and any other responses. These can either be shared as comments in the document hosted on Google Drive, or via tweets sent to the information policy team at @CIS_InfoPolicy.
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Daunting task ahead for investigative agencies with WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 09, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Messaging service WhatsApp's decision to roll out end-to-end encryption for over 1 billion subscribers has been hailed as a positive step by users across the world, although things are set to get tougher for law enforcement and investigative agencies in India seeking to track terrorists.
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India's biometric database crosses billion-member mark
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 07, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
India's biometric database notched up one billion members on Monday, as the government sought to allay concerns about privacy breaches in the world's biggest such scheme.
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The Panama Papers and the question of privacy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 06, 2016
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last modified
Apr 24, 2016 02:03 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
This statement was originally published on privacyinternational.org on 4 April 2016.
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Surveillance Project
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Apr 05, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Aadhaar project’s technological design and architecture is an unmitigated disaster and no amount of legal fixes in the Act will make it any better.
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A Large Byte of Your Life
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 03, 2016
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last modified
Jun 05, 2016 03:35 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
With the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering.
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Mapping MAG: A study in Institutional Isomorphism
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Apr 03, 2016
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last modified
Mar 03, 2017 12:59 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The paper is an update to a shorter piece of MAG analysis that had been conducted in July 2015. At that time our analysis was limited by the MAG membership data that was made available by the Secretariat. Subsequently we wrote to the Secretariat and this paper is based on the data shared by them including for the years for which membership details were previously not available.
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