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Blog Entry UID & Privacy - A Call for Papers
by Elonnai Hickok published Dec 15, 2010 last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:03 AM — filed under: ,
Privacy India is inviting individuals to author short papers focused on Unique Identity (UID) and Privacy. Selected candidates will have their papers published on the CIS website, and their transportation and accommodation provided for the “Privacy Matters” conference being held in Kolkata on 22 January 2010.
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Blog Entry The Privacy Rights of Whistleblowers
by Elonnai Hickok published Dec 20, 2010 last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:47 AM — filed under: ,
The recent disclosures from Wikileaks have shown that the right to information, whistle-blowing, and privacy are interconnected. This note looks at the different ways in which the three are related, as well as looking at the benefits and drawbacks to Wikileaks in terms of privacy.
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Blog Entry An Open Letter to the Finance Committee: SCOSTA Standards
by Elonnai Hickok published Jan 06, 2011 last modified Dec 20, 2013 03:58 AM — filed under:
The UID Bill has been placed to the Finance Committee for review and approval. Through a series of open letters to the Finance Committee, civil society is asking the committee to take into consideration and change certain aspects of the Bill and the project. The below note compares the SCOSTA standard with the Aadhaar biometric standard, and explains why we believe the SCOSTA standard should replace the Aadhaar biometric standard for the authentication process in the UID scheme.
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Privacy Matters — Conference Report
by Prasad Krishna published Jan 24, 2011 last modified Jan 27, 2011 10:22 AM — filed under: ,
A one-day conference on Privacy Matters was held on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Law School in Kolkata. This was the first of a series of eleven conferences on ‘privacy’ that Privacy India is scheduled to host in different Indian cities from January to June this year. Members of Parliament, Sri Manoj Bhattacharya from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Sri Nilotpal Basu from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) spoke in the conference. Students, the civil society and lawyers also participated in it.
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Privacy By Design — Conference Report
by Prasad Krishna published May 02, 2011 last modified Aug 22, 2011 12:03 PM — filed under: ,
How do we imagine privacy? How is privacy being built into technological systems? On April 16th,The Center for Internet and Society hosted Privacy by Design, an Open Space meant to answer these questions and more around the topic of privacy. Below is a summary of the conversations and dialogs from the event.
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Blog Entry Bloggers' Rights Subordinated to Rights of Expression: Cyber Law Expert
by Elonnai Hickok published Jun 03, 2011 last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:35 AM — filed under: ,
Vijayashankar, an eminent cyber law expert answers Elonnai Hickok’s questions on bloggers' rights, freedom of expression and privacy in this e-mail interview conducted on May 19, 2011.
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Blog Entry A Street View of Private and the Public
by Prashant Iyengar published Jun 04, 2011 last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:34 AM — filed under: ,
Prashant Iyengar on how in the eyes of the law, the internet giant is like the homeless in India. This article was published by Tehelka on June 4, 2011.
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Privacy Matters, Guwahati — Event Report
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 21, 2011 last modified Aug 26, 2011 10:31 AM — filed under: ,
On June 23, a public seminar on “Privacy Matters” was held at the Don Bosco Institute in Karhulli, Guwahati. It was organised by IDRC, Society in Action Group, IDEA Chirang, an NGO initiative working with grassroots initiatives in Assam, Privacy India and CIS and was attended by RTI activists and grass roots NGO representatives from across the North Eastern region: Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Assam and Sikkim. The event focused on the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
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Blog Entry An Overview of DNA Labs in India
by Shilpa Narani published Jul 24, 2011 last modified Feb 02, 2016 01:11 PM — filed under: ,
DNA fingerprinting has become the most precise and technologically advanced method for identifying crimes such as murder, kidnapping, robbery and rape. Police and judicial authorities and in some cases even private parties retain this in their records, writes Shilpa in this blog post.
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Blog Entry My Experiment with Scam Baiting
by Sahana Sarkar published Jul 15, 2011 last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — filed under: ,
Today, as I am sure many of you have experienced, Internet scams are widespread and very deceptive. As part of my research into privacy and the Internet, I decided to follow a scam and attempt to fully understand how Internet scams work, and what privacy implications they have for Internet users. Though there are many different types of scams that take place over the Internet —identity scams, housing scams, banking scams— just to name a few. I decided to look in depth at the lottery scam.
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