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Civil Liberties and the amended Information Technology Act, 2000

Posted by Malavika Jayaram at Aug 05, 2010 08:30 AM |
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This post examines certain limitations of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended in 2008). Malavika Jayaram points out the fact that when most countries of the world are adopting plain English instead of the conventional legal terminology for better understanding, India seems to be stuck in the old-fashioned method thereby, struggling to maintain a balance between clarity and flexibility in drafting its laws. The present Act, she says, is although an improvement over the old Act and seeks to address and improve on certain areas in the right direction but still comes up short in making necessary changes when it comes to fundamental rights and personal liberties. The new Act retains elements from the previous one making it an abnormal document and this could have been averted if there had been some attention to detail.

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Feedback to the NIA Bill

Posted by Elonnai Hickok at Jul 30, 2010 07:30 AM |

Malavika Jayaram and Elonnai Hickok introduce the formal submission of CIS to the proposed National Identification Authority of India (NIA) Bill, 2010, which would give every resident a unique identity. The submissions contain the detailed comments on the draft bill and the high level summary of concerns with the NIA Bill submitted to the UIDAI on 13 July, 2010.

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Does the Safe-Harbor Program Adequately Address Third Parties Online?

Posted by Rebecca Schild at Apr 16, 2010 05:40 AM |

While many citizens outside of the US and EU benefit from the data privacy provisions the Safe Harbor Program, it remains unclear how successfully the program can govern privacy practices when third-parties continue to gain more rights over personal data. Using Facebook as a site of analysis, I will attempt to shed light on the deficiencies of the framework for addressing the complexity of data flows in the online ecosystem.

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Sense and censorship

Posted by Sunil Abraham at Mar 30, 2010 06:50 AM |
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Sunil Abraham examines Google's crusade against censorship in China in wake of the attacks on its servers in this article published in the Indian Express.

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Report on the Fourth Internet Governance Forum for Commonwealth IGF

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Feb 05, 2010 09:00 AM |

This report by Pranesh Prakash reflects on the question of how useful the IGF is in the light of meetings on the themes of intellectual property, freedom of speech and privacy.

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When Whistle Blowers Unite

Posted by Sunil Abraham at Jan 14, 2010 05:50 AM |

Leaking corporate or government information in public interest through popular Web service providers is risky but Wikileaks.org is one option that you could try out.

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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile

In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.

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Information and livelihoods

Posted by Radha Rao at Nov 18, 2009 10:45 AM |
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An article by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam (Distinguished Fellow, CIS) in GISW 2009 (Global Information Society Watch, 2009)

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Managing Spectrum

Posted by Radha Rao at Nov 05, 2009 11:00 AM |
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The Empowered Group of Ministers' goal should be nothing short of a broadband revolution - Shyam Ponappa / New Delhi, November 5, 2009 (Business Standard)

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Control Shift?

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Oct 08, 2009 06:30 AM |
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The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)

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