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The State is Snooping: Can You Escape?
— by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Apr 29, 2019 03:09 PMBlanket surveillance of the kind envisaged by India's Centralized Monitoring System achieves little, but blatantly violates the citizen's right to privacy; Snehashish Ghosh explores why it may be dangerous and looks at potential safeguards against such intrusion.
Open Letter to Prevent the Installation of RFID tags in Vehicles
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 10:59 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has sent this open letter to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) to urge them not to intall RFID tags in vehicles in India.
Way to watch
— by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Jul 01, 2013 10:17 AMThe domestic surveillance regime in India lacks adequate safeguards.
Report on the 4th Privacy Round Table meeting
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:04 AMThis report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the fourth Privacy Round Table in Mumbai, on 15th June 2013.
Interview with the Citizen Lab on Internet Filtering in India
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Jun 26, 2013 09:47 AMMaria Xynou recently interviewed Masashi Crete-Nishihata and Jakub Dalek from the Citizen Lab on internet filtering in India. View this interview and gain an insight on Netsweeper and FinFisher!
Interview with Mr. Billy Hawkes - Irish Data Protection Commissioner
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:06 AMMaria Xynou recently interviewed Mr. Billy Hawkes, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, at the CIS´ 4th Privacy Round Table meeting. View this interview and gain an insight on recommendations for data protection in India!
Open Letter to "Not" Recognize India as Data Secure Nation till Enactment of Privacy Legislation
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:07 AMIndia shouldn't be granted the status of "data secure nation" by Europe until it enacts a suitable privacy legislation, points out the Centre for Internet and Society in this open letter.
World Wide Rule
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 01, 2013 10:26 AMNishant Shah's review of Schmidt and Cohen's book was published in the Indian Express on June 14, 2013.
Indian surveillance laws & practices far worse than US
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jul 12, 2013 11:09 AMExplosive would be just the word to describe the revelations by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
India Subject to NSA Dragnet Surveillance! No Longer a Hypothesis — It is Now Officially Confirmed
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Nov 06, 2013 10:20 AMAs of last week, it is officially confirmed that the metadata of everyone´s communications is under the NSA´s microscope. In fact, the leaked data shows that India is one of the countries which is under NSA surveillance the most!
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