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Blog Entry Analysis of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Dec 02, 2011 09:26 AM — filed under: , ,
In this blog post, Pranesh Prakash briefly analyses the DIT's response to an RTI request on website blocking alongside the most recent edition of Google's Transparency Report, and what it tells us about the online censorship regime in India.
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Blog Entry Text of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking
by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Oct 28, 2011 02:37 PM — filed under: , ,
CIS had filed a request under the Right to Information Act with the government, asking a number of questions relating to blocking of content under the IT Act. We have reproduced below the response we got from the government.
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India’s vanishing fingerprints put UID in question
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 26, 2011 — last modified Oct 26, 2011 10:05 AM — filed under:
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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Blog Entry Privacy & Sexual Minorities
by Danish Sheikh — published Oct 24, 2011 — last modified Sep 20, 2013 09:22 AM — filed under: ,
Danish Sheikh examines the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Allahabad, the research brings to light the privacy violations being committed by both individuals as well as state authorities. The research concludes by saying that privacy doesn’t necessarily encompass a one-size-fits-all approach, and can raise as many questions as it answers.
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Blog Entry Sixth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi: A Summary
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 24, 2011 — last modified Oct 24, 2011 09:09 AM — filed under:
The sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was held from 27 to 30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Sunil Abraham participated in six workshops: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses, Use of Digital Technologies for Civic Engagement and Political Change: Lessons Learned and Way Forward, The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise, Proprietary Influences in Free and Open Source Software: Lessons to Open and Universal Internet Standards, Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access and Putting Users First: How Can Privacy be Protected in Today’s Complex Mobile Ecosystem?
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Ninth Workshop on Media Economics
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 15, 2011 — last modified Nov 28, 2011 09:12 AM — filed under:
The Higher School of Economics and the New Economic School have joined hands to organize the ninth workshop on media economics in Moscow on October 28 and 29, 2011. All events are scheduled to take place in Marriott Courtyard, a hotel in the centre of Moscow within 10-minute walking distance from the Kremlin, the Red Square, and the Bolshoi Theatre.
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Growing Wikipedia: The India Chronicles
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 14, 2011 — filed under:
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Blog Entry SCOSTA and UID Comparison not Valid, says Finance Committee
by Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 14, 2011 — last modified Nov 22, 2011 04:37 PM — filed under:
The Standing Committee on Finance Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat has responded to the suggestions offered by CIS on the National Identification Authority of India, Bill 2010 and has requested it to mail its views by 14 October 2011.
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Blog Entry Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique Identifiers
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 12, 2011 — last modified Nov 22, 2011 07:28 AM — filed under:
Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh open letter, Hans attempts to characterize in an abstract way the replies that CIS managed to elicit and makes some elementary observations.
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Blog Entry Hack Night in CIS ― A Meeting of Java Script Hackers
by Tom Dane — published Oct 10, 2011 — last modified Oct 27, 2011 11:36 AM — filed under:
CIS hosted a hack night in conjunction with the tech-event organizers HasGeek at its office on 24 September 2011. The event brought together local java script hackers on a common platform. Tom Dane and Kiran Jonnalagadda participated in the event.
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