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India’s ruling party takes online abuse to a professional level
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 31, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employs an army of trolls to harass and intimidate critics through social media, a new book claims.
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India’s Supreme Court hears challenge to biometric authentication system
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 03, 2017
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last modified
May 20, 2017 06:44 AM
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filed under:
Biometrics,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Two lawsuits being heard this week before India’s Supreme Court question a requirement imposed by the government that individuals should quote a biometrics-based authentication number when filing their tax returns.
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India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that led to arrests over Facebook posts
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 26, 2015
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filed under:
IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
Judge rules that section of the information technology law was unconstitutional, had wrongly swept up innocent people and had a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech.
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India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that led to Facebook arrests
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 26, 2015
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last modified
Mar 27, 2015 12:29 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Censorship,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a provision of a law that made it illegal to spread “offensive messages” on electronic devices and resulted in arrests over posts on Facebook and other social media.
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India’s vanishing fingerprints put UID in question
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 26, 2011
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last modified
Oct 26, 2011 10:05 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
A curious situation has come to light at the UID (unique identity) enrolment centres. Call it the phenomenon of vanishing fingerprints. You see, our unique fingerprints don’t necessarily last a lifetime and they can be damaged or destroyed and, in some cases, even non-existent. And that is not the best scenario for the first-of-its-kind project that endeavours to create a unique identity for India’s billion-plus population based on fingerprints and iris scans (or biometric data).
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India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 17, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance
It's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't comply]," Justice Suresh Cait told Facebook and Google lawyers in India yesterday. "But let us not go to that situation."
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India: Privacy Bill will likely reflect EU Directive
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 05, 2014
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Indian Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) called for comments - on 25 February 2014 - on a draft Privacy Protection Bill ('the Bill'). The draft Bill comes after a series of roundtable discussions in 2013. The last CIS roundtable on the Bill, on 19 October 2013, included Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the EU Article 29 Working Party and the Dutch data protection authority, and Christopher Graham, the UK Information Commissioner.
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India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 27, 2012
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
This is the second post in the 2-part series about the perceived role of social media in the wake of the Assam clashes that spilled across the country and threatened to upset the nation's peace.
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India: The New Front Line in the Global Struggle for Internet Freedom
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 18, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
The government tussles with Internet freedom activists in the world's largest democracy.
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India:Privacy in Peril
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by
Bhairav Acharya
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published
Jul 12, 2013
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last modified
Sep 25, 2013 09:56 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The danger of mass surveillance in India is for real. The absence of a regulating law is damning for Indians who want to protect their privacy against the juggernaut of state and private surveillance.
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