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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AMI woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
What lurks beneath the Network
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 25, 2012 07:10 AMThere is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown Anna Hazare spectacles), there is this increasing belief in the innate possibilities of social media as providing ways by which the world as we know it shall change for the better. Young people are getting on to the streets and demanding their rights to the future.
Censoring the Internet: A brief manual
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Aug 24, 2012 09:39 AMBlocking websites on the Internet should be proportionate to harm they intend. However, the government of India's approach is against the principles of natural justice.
Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2012 11:52 AMPranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
The Perils of 'Hactivism'
— by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Aug 20, 2012 09:58 AMCivil disobedience includes accepting the penalty for breaking the law. Untraceable hackers are far removed from this ethic.
Open letter to Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 04, 2012 08:28 AMLast month I wrote an open letter to Hillary Clinton. It was based on a presentation I that I made during a panel discussion at a Google sponsored conference titled Internet at Liberty 2012 in Washington DC on May 24, 2012.
Constitutional Analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules, 2011
— by Ujwala Uppaluri — last modified Oct 31, 2012 08:44 AMUjwala Uppaluri provides a constitutional analysis of the Information Technology (Intermediaries' Guidelines) Rules notified in April 2011, and examines its compatibility with Articles 14, 19, 21 of the Constitution of India.
Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful Hackers
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 06, 2012 06:56 AMIf there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated government machinery has been trying to control and contain the burgeoning online spaces, only to be put in their place by the new-age tech-ninjas that have risen as the new heroes in our digital times.
Overview and Concerns Regarding the Indian Draft DNA Profiling Act
— by GeneWatch UK & the Council for Responsible Genetics, US — last modified Jul 11, 2012 11:30 AMThe Indian Code of Criminal Procedure was amended in 2005 to enable the collection of a host of medical details from accused persons upon their arrest. Section 53 of the Cr.PC provides that upon arrest, an accused person may be subjected to a medical examination if there are “reasonable grounds for believing” that such examination will afford evidence as to the crime.
Privacy Matters — Medical Privacy
— by Natasha Vaz — last modified Jul 10, 2012 01:41 PMOn June 30, 2012, Privacy India in partnership with the Indian Network for People living with HIV/AIDS, Centre for Internet & Society, IDRC, Society in Action Group, with support from London-based Privacy International, held a public discussion on "Medical Privacy" at the Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration.
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