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Transparency Reports — A Glance on What Google and Facebook Tell about Government Data Requests
— by Prachi Arya — last modified Sep 13, 2013 09:44 AMTransparency Reports are a step towards greater accountability but how efficacious are they really?
Privacy Law Must Fit the Bill
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 12, 2013 06:25 AMThe process of updating Indian privacy policy has gained momentum ever since the launch of the UID project and also the leak of the Radia tapes. The Department of Personnel and Training has lead the drafting of privacy bill for the last three years. This bill will ideally articulate privacy principles and establish the office of the privacy commissioner and most importantly have an over-riding effect over 50 odd existing laws, rules and policies with privacy implications.
An Interview with Suresh Ramasubramanian
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Sep 06, 2013 09:37 AMSuresh Ramasubramanian is the ICS Quality Representative - IBM SmartCloud at IBM. We from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted an interview on cybersecurity and issues in the Cloud.
Indian government to bar politicians from using Gmail for official business
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 05, 2013 09:52 AMUS-based email services seen as too risky.
Report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable Meeting, New Delhi
— by Prachi Arya — last modified Aug 30, 2013 03:04 PMIn 2013 the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India. The following is a report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable held in New Delhi on August 24, 2013.
Out of the Bedroom
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 06, 2013 08:32 AMWe have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
Freedom from Monitoring: India Inc Should Push For Privacy Laws
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 21, 2013 07:04 AMMore surveillance than absolutely necessary actually undermines the security objective.
FinFisher in India and the Myth of Harmless Metadata
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Aug 13, 2013 11:30 AMIn this article, Maria Xynou argues that metadata is anything but harmless, especially since FinFisher — one of the world's most controversial types of spyware — uses metadata to target individuals.
Ethical Issues in Open Data
— by Kovey Coles — last modified Aug 07, 2013 09:19 AMOn August 1, 2013, I took part in a web meeting, organized and hosted by Tim Davies of the World Wide Web foundation. The meeting, titled “Ethical issues in Open Data,” had an agenda focused around privacy considerations in the context of the open data movement.
'Ethical Hacker' Saket Modi Calls for Stronger Cyber Security Discussions
— by Kovey Coles — last modified Aug 05, 2013 01:11 PMTwenty-two year old Saket Modi is the CEO and co-founder of Lucideus, a leading cyber security company in India which claims to have worked with 4 out of 5 top global e-commerce companies, 4 out of 10 top IT companies in the world, and 3 out of 5 top banks of the Asia Pacific.
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