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DML 2013 Conference

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 21, 2013 09:48 AM
March 21, 2013

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Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 Analysis

by Jeremy Gruber — last modified Mar 19, 2013 09:53 AM
March 19, 2013

Jeremy Gruber from the Council for Responsible Genetics, US provides an analysis of the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012. He says that India’s updated 2012 Human DNA Profiling Bill offers largely superficial changes from its predecessor, the Draft DNA Profiling Bill, 2007.

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Workshop on the Unique Identity Number (UID), the National Population Register (NPR) and Governance: What will happen to our data?

Workshop on the Unique Identity Number (UID), the National Population Register (NPR) and Governance: What will happen to our data?

by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:28 PM

On March 2nd, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society and the Say No to UID campaign organized a workshop to discuss the present state of the UID and NPR schemes. Some of the questions which were addressed included ´How do the UID and NPR impact citizenship´, ´Why and how is national security linked to UID/NPR´, and ´What is the relationship between UID and Big Data´.

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Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillance

Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillance

by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:30 PM

In this post, Maria Xynou looks at some of DARPA´s artificial intelligence surveillance technologies in regards to the right to privacy and their potential future use in India.

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A Comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012

A Comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012

by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:32 PM

In this post, Maria Xynou gives us a comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012.

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Summary of the CIS workshop on the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012

Summary of the CIS workshop on the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012

by Maria Xynou — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:33 PM

On March 1st, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society organized a workshop which analysed the April 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and its potential implications on human rights in India.

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Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and Governance

by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Apr 30, 2014 05:03 AM
March 14, 2013

This post examines the UID, NPR and Governance as it exists in India. The background note gives a summary of what is the NPR, the legal grounding of NPR, its objectives, and the information which could be collected under the NPR. The post also throws light on the UID, its objectives, process of enrollment in UID, how UID is being adopted by different states in India, and finally the differences and controversies in UID and NPR.

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Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level Concerns

by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:36 PM

In 2007 the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill was piloted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, with the objective of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked. The February 2012 Bill was drafted by the Department of Biotechnology. Another working draft of the Bill was created in April 2012. The most recent version of the Bill seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level.

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An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, India

An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, India

by Benson Samuel — last modified Mar 12, 2013 05:58 AM
March 12, 2013

An event at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) was organized on January 23, 2013. The all star team at CIS was awesome at organizing this event for Bitcoin. Live streaming, mainstream newspaper coverage and Twitter based Q&A made this the first Bitcoin event in India that leveraged these mediums of information transfer.

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