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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.
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.
CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 10) - Lawrence Liang
— by Purba Sarkar — last modified Sep 10, 2013 08:31 AMCIS interviews Lawrence Liang, researcher and lawyer, and co-founder of Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
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.
The Personal Data (Protection) Bill, 2013
— by Prachi Arya — last modified Aug 30, 2013 02:53 PMBelow is the text of the Personal Data (Protection) Bill, 2013 as discussed at the 6th Privacy Roundtable, New Delhi held on 24 August 2013. Note: This version of the Bill caters only to the Personal Data regime. The surveillance and privacy of communications regime was not discussed at the 6th Privacy Roundtable.
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.
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