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State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Jul 12, 2013 04:02 PMOn December 13 and 14, 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation organized the Surveillance and Human Rights Camp held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting examined trends in surveillance, reasons for state surveillance, surveillance tactics that governments are using, and safeguards that can be put in place to protect against unlawful or disproportionate surveillance.
Tomorrow, Today
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:00 AMOur present is the future that our past had imagined. Around the same time last year, I remember taking stock of the technologies that we live with and wondering what 2012 would bring in.
Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Dec 28, 2012 03:34 PMA symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.
The Trouble with Hurried Solutions
— by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Dec 20, 2012 04:23 AMThe World Conference on International Telecommunication showed that countries are not yet ready to arrive at a consensus on regulation and control of the Internet
The Worldwide Web of Concerns
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 27, 2012 04:31 AMThe International Telecommunication Union’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is currently under way in Dubai, after a gap of 25 years. At this conference, the Inter-national Telecommunication Regulations — a binding treaty containing high-level principles — are to be revised.
The Worldwide Web of Concerns
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 10, 2012 05:10 AMThe threat of a ‘UN takeover’ of the Internet through the WCIT is non-existent. However, that does not mean that activists have been crying themselves hoarse in vain.
Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 05, 2012 07:06 AMWhy is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this?
Comments on the Proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 Concerning Radio Frequency Identification Tags
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Dec 04, 2012 03:32 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. The comments were made in response to Notification GSR 738(E) published in the Gazette of India on October 3, 2012.
Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: Cases
— by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Dec 06, 2012 09:20 AMIn this blog post Snehashish Ghosh summarizes the facts of a few cases where Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000, has been mentioned or discussed.
Transcripts from WCIT-12
— by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Dec 03, 2012 02:00 PMWe are archiving copies of the live-transcripts from the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT-12) which is being held in Dubai from 3–14 December, 2012.
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