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Reddit, Telegram among websites blocked in India, say internet groups
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by
Sai Sachin Ravikumar
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published
Apr 15, 2019
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last modified
Apr 15, 2019 10:32 AM
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Internet Governance
Discussion board Reddit, messaging service Telegram and comedy site College Humor have been blocked for intermittent periods, say internet groups.
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TikTok craze a ticking time bomb for city
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by
Gulam Jeelani
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published
Apr 17, 2019
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Unlike YouTube, where videos take a long time to upload, on TikTok it happens in a matter of seconds. Not just the youth, the trend has captured the imagination of criminals too.
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Securing the internet’s future
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 28, 2016
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Internet Governance
Mike Godwin, who proposed the eponymous law about online discussion threads, speaks about net neutrality, differential pricing and why no government is likely to oppose stricter surveillance measures.
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On Google Maps, JNU top result in search for 'anti-national'
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 29, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance
"Anti-national" is not a location. But Google Maps seems to have an address for it - Jawaharlal Nehru University in the capital. On Friday, Google Maps pinned other such "locations" in the same place. It yielded the same result for other search terms such as "sedition," "freedom of expression," and "patriotism."
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Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 23, 2016
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last modified
Apr 01, 2016 03:48 PM
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Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
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Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 17, 2016
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last modified
Apr 02, 2016 05:31 AM
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UID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Biometrics
This article by Pratap Vikram Singh, Governance Now, discusses the problems emerging out of the UIDAI project due to its lack of mechanisms for informed and granular consent, and for seeking recourse in the case of denial of service. The article quotes Sumandro Chattapadhyay and mentions Hans Varghese Mathew's work on the biometric basis of UIDAI. It was written before the Aadhaar bill was passed in Lok Sabha.
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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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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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GNI-Industry Dialogue Learning Session: Human Rights Impact Assessments and Due Diligence in the ICT sector
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Mar 11, 2016
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last modified
Apr 06, 2016 03:42 PM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Elonnai Hickok attended the meeting organized by Global Network Initiative on March 11, 2016 in Washington D.C.
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Infographic: The Impending Right to Privacy Judgment
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by
Amber Sinha and Pooja Saxena
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published
Aug 22, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The ruling will be important not just for the immediate Aadhaar case but also numerous other matters to do with state intrusions, decisional autonomy and informational privacy.
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