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February 2013 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 28, 2013
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last modified
Mar 11, 2013 05:35 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a great year ahead and welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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Research Initiative: Women in India's IT Industry
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by
Jadine Lannon
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published
Feb 28, 2013
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last modified
Mar 06, 2013 10:31 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
CIS has begun a brief research project which will examine indicators of female economic empowerment in the IT industry in India. Though the gathering of quantitative and qualitative data from the six largest publicly-traded Indian software companies, we hope to provide insight into state of female employment in one of the most important and rapidly growing economic sectors in the country.
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Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 25, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013 09:56 AM
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Event,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet & Society invites you to a workshop on analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill on March 1, 2013 in its Bangalore office, from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
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Events
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BigDog is Watching You! The Sci-fi Future of Animal and Insect Drones
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Maria Xynou
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Feb 25, 2013
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Jul 12, 2013 03:38 PM
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SAFEGUARDS,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Do you think robotic aeroplanes monitoring us are scary enough? Wait until you read about DARPA´s new innovative and subtle way to keep us all under the microscope! This blog post presents a new reality of drones which is depicted in none other than animal and insect-like robots, equipped with cameras and other surveillance technologies.
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Unique Identity Number (UID), National Population Register (NPR), and Governance
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Feb 24, 2013
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Mar 01, 2013 04:32 AM
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Event,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society and the Say No to UID campaign invite you to a workshop to discuss and learn about the present state of the UID and the NPR schemes. The event will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at TERI, Bangalore, from 10.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
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Events
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Stop Press Carousel
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 22, 2013
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Mar 06, 2013 04:27 AM
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Internet Governance,
Censorship
The silent blocking of URLs by the DoT assaults freedom of expression.
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News & Media
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Surveillance Camp IV: Disproportionate State Surveillance - A Violation of Privacy
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Elonnai Hickok
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Feb 19, 2013
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
This is the fourth in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF's State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This article has been co-written with Elonnai Hickok — Centre for Internet and Society India, and a speaker at EFF's Camp.
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Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs?
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 19, 2013
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
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The Omnishambles of UID, shrouded in its RTI opacity
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013 11:04 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet & Society sponsored Colonel Mathew Thomas to hold a workshop at the fourth National Right to Information (RTI) organized by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, held in Hyderabad from February 15 to 18, 2013.
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Freedom of Expression Gagged
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Chinmayi Arun
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Feb 18, 2013
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
The use of law to bully people into silence, called ‘heckler’s veto’, is not unique to India, writes Chinmayi Arun in this op-ed published in Business Line on February 15, 2013.
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