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August 2015 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 31, 2015
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last modified
Oct 27, 2015 12:25 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
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Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 30, 2015
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last modified
Nov 29, 2015 06:35 AM
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filed under:
IANA,
Internet Governance,
IANA Transition
This proposal was made to the Global Multistakeholder Community on August 9, 2015. The proposal was drafted by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. The research assistance was provided by Padmini Baruah, Vidushi Marda, and inputs from Sunil Abraham.
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Supreme Court Order is a Good Start, but is Seeding Necessary?
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Elonnai Hickok and Rohan George
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published
Aug 29, 2015
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last modified
Sep 07, 2015 01:21 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
This blog post seeks to unpack the ‘seeding’ process in the UIDAI scheme, understand the implications of the Supreme Court order on this process, and identify questions regarding the UID scheme that still need to be clarified by the court in the context of the seeding process.
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Are we Throwing our Data Protection Regimes under the Bus?
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by
Rohan George
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published
Aug 29, 2015
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last modified
Sep 10, 2015 02:02 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
In this blog post Rohan examines why the principle of consent is providing us increasingly less of an aegis in protecting our data.
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The new tattler in town
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2015
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last modified
Sep 26, 2015 04:31 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
WhatsApp messages, and in particular ‘admins’ of WhatsApp groups come under pressure as rumour-mongering catches the attention of the police.
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The Changing Landscape of ICT Governance and Practice - Convergence and Big Data
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2015
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last modified
Sep 07, 2015 01:48 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Big Data
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CIS Comments and Recommendations to the Human DNA Profiling Bill, June 2015
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by
Elonnai Hickok, Vipul Kharbanda and Vanya Rakesh
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published
Aug 27, 2015
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last modified
Sep 02, 2015 05:09 PM
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filed under:
DNA Profiling,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted a clause-by-clause comments on the Human DNA Profiling Bill that was circulated by the Department of Biotechnology on June 9, 2015.
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Responsible Data Forum: Discussion on the Risks and Mitigations of releasing Data
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Vanya Rakesh
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published
Aug 26, 2015
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last modified
Sep 06, 2015 02:29 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
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The seedy underbelly of revenge porn
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 23, 2015
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last modified
Sep 27, 2015 02:25 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Intimate photos posted by angry exes are becoming part of an expanding online body of dirty work.
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Stats from 2014 reveal horror of scrapped section 66A of IT Act
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 20, 2015
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last modified
Sep 26, 2015 07:28 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance,
Section 66A
An average of six netizens were arrested every day in 2014 for posting offensive content online under section 66A of the Information Technology Act, a draconian and much abused law no longer in use.
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