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(Updated) Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar Numbers with sensitive personal financial information
Since its inception in 2009, the Aadhaar project has been shrouded in controversy due to various questions raised about privacy, technological issues, welfare exclusion, and security concerns. In this study, we document numerous instances of publicly available Aadhaar Numbers along with other personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals on government websites. This report highlights four government projects run by various government departments that have made sensitive personal financial information and Aadhaar numbers public on the project websites.
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Report of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017
June 17, 2017
Aditya Tejas attended the Global Accessibility Awareness Day event organized at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. The event had multiple panels and presentations, including a talk on coding for accessibility, a panel on why accessibility is necessary and how India is lagging behind in implementing it, and a presentation on how accessibility principles are integrated into the product life cycle at Cisco.
- Comments on the draft Policy on IT Accessibility for People with Disabilities May 19, 2017
- Mobile Accessibility Practices April 11, 2017
- Comments on the draft Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules March 29, 2017
- Comments on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities 'Vision Document 2030' February 28, 2017
- Openness
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Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune
June 07, 2017
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
- SoI’s Open Series Maps Fails to Implement Public Sharing of Govt Data May 04, 2017
- Comments on the Statistical Disclosure Control Report May 02, 2017
- Wiki Loves Mayabazaar June 07, 2017
- Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics June 07, 2017
- Telecom
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Policies to Sustain India's Market
May 20, 2017
The question is whether policies can be better framed to harness the market potential. Why is so much investment flowing into India's securities markets?
- Organisational Hurdles in Telecom April 04, 2017
- A Pathfinding Approach for Digital India March 03, 2017
- Cashlessness Needs Connectivity February 02, 2017
- CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks December 10, 2016
- Access to Knowledge (A2K)
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Wiki Loves Mayabazaar
June 07, 2017
- Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune June 07, 2017
- Marathi Wikipedia Symposium at Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics June 07, 2017
- Digitisation, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Orientation Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune District June 07, 2017
- Train The Trainer 2017 June 05, 2017
- Internet Governance
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Cybersecurity Compilation: Indian Context
June 18, 2017
This document intends to serve as a comprehensive source compiling all the cyber-security related regulations, policies, guidelines, notifications, executive orders, court rulings, etc.
- Comments from the Centre for Internet and Society on Renewal of .NET Registry Agreement June 06, 2017
- Aadhaar Case: Beyond Privacy, An Issue of Bodily Integrity May 03, 2017
- Internet Shutdowns in 2016 April 27, 2017
- Killing of Yameen Rasheed Reveals Worsening Human Rights Situation in the Maldives April 25, 2017
- Researchers at Work (RAW)
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May 2017 Newsletter
June 07, 2017
Welcome to the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for May 2017.
- Japleen Pasricha - Gendered Spaces in Digital Rights (Delhi, June 02, 5 pm) May 30, 2017
- Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap June 08, 2017
- Consultative Meeting for a Digital Archive Lab June 08, 2017
- April 2017 Newsletter May 04, 2017
- Past Events
- Japleen Pasricha - Gendered Spaces in Digital Rights (Delhi, June 02, 5 pm)
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017
- Meeting on Proactive Disclosure and Personal Data (Delhi, May 13, 5:30 pm)
- Communication Design and Visualising Information
- Amutha Arunachalam - Stand Shielded of Digital Rights (Delhi, May 05, 4 pm)
- Featured Articles
- (Updated) Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar Numbers with sensitive personal financial information
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India: Opportunities for Advocacy in Intellectual Property
- Net Neutrality Resources
- Survey on Data Protection Regime
- Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
- CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation Note on Model for Nation-wide Interoperable and Scalable Public Wi-Fi Networks
- Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
- The Technology behind Big Data
- Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions
- Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for Sessions
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The academic research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.
Through its diverse initiatives, CIS explores, intervenes in, and advances contemporary discourse and practices around internet, technology and society in India, and elsewhere.
