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Are we Losing the Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech on Indian Internet?
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Mar 10, 2016
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last modified
Mar 16, 2016 02:44 PM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Surveillance,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The article was published in DNA on March 10, 2016.
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Aadhaar Bill fails to incorporate suggestions by the Standing Committee
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Mar 10, 2016
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last modified
Mar 10, 2016 03:58 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
In 2011, a standing committee report led by Yashwant Sinha had been scathing in its indictments of the Aadhaar BIll introduced by the UPA government. Five years later, the NDA government has introduced a new bill which is a rehash of the same. I look at the concerns raised by the committee report, none of which have been addressed by the new bill.
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A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Mar 09, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
UID
This blog post does a clause-by-clause comparison of the provisions of National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
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Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Mar 07, 2016
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last modified
Apr 06, 2016 03:31 PM
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
While one wishes to welcome govt’s attempt to bring Aadhaar within a legislative framework, the fact is there are too many problems that still remain unaddressed for one to be optimistic.
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Flaws in the UIDAI Process
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by
Hans Varghese Mathews
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published
Mar 06, 2016
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last modified
Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM
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UID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Aadhaar,
Homepage
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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The Crypto Wars Are Global
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 04, 2016
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last modified
Apr 01, 2016 04:06 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 01, 2016
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last modified
Apr 21, 2016 09:57 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Privacy,
Open Data,
Disaster Response,
Internet Governance,
Humanitarian Response,
CIS Papers
We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.
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India's ‘Facebook ruling’ is another nail in the coffin of the MNO model
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2016
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last modified
Feb 28, 2016 03:44 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Telecom,
Free Basics,
TRAI,
Internet Governance,
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Ability to access 'net from mobe no longer considered a miracle.
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Violence call key to 'sedition'
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Words, whether spoken or shouted, that question or even malign the government cannot be labelled as sedition, unless they specifically incite violence, lawyers and human rights experts familiar with fundamental rights and sedition laws have said.
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Why the Internet is Making India Furious
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Social Media
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore is a kind of hacker club for wonks and lawyers obsessed with issues of digital rights and global development. Not exactly the mainstream kids’ lunch table. But the Center was brought into sudden relief this week, thanks to … Mark Zuckerberg.
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