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DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Jan 25, 2024 11:19 AMDigital Delivery and Data System for Farmer Income Support
— by Sameet Panda — last modified Oct 18, 2023 11:40 PMThis report, jointly published by the Centre for Internet & Society and Privacy International, highlights the digital systems deployed by the government to augment farmer income. It analyses the PM-Kisan and Kalia schemes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Blocking
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Sep 05, 2023 12:10 PMA new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
Deceptive Design in Voice Interfaces: Impact on Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Privacy
— by Saumyaa Naidu and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Aug 08, 2023 03:22 PMThis article was commissioned by the Pranava Institute, as part of their project titled Design Beyond Deception, supported by the University of Notre Dame - IBM's Tech Ethics Lab.” The article examines the design of voice interfaces (VI) to anticipate potential deceptive design patterns in VIs. It also presents design and regulatory recommendations to mitigate these practices.
Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and India
— by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Jul 10, 2023 04:36 PMThrough this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management policy.
CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors?
— by Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi — last modified Jul 04, 2023 09:39 AMRecent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Mar 15, 2023 11:58 AMResults from a nation-wide empirical study on web censorship
Civil Society’s second opinion on a UHI prescription
— by Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Feb 15, 2023 08:20 AMOn January 13, Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas from CIS participated in an online collaboration organised by Internet Freedom Foundation for a joint submission to the Consultation Paper on Operationalising Unified Health Interface (UHI) in India released by the National Health Authority.
Comments to the proposed amendments to The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
— by Divyansha Sehgal and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Feb 07, 2023 03:21 PMThis note presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India, on the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“proposed amendments”). We thank Isha Suri for her review of this submission.
The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022
— by Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi — last modified Jan 20, 2023 02:35 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) published its comments and recommendations to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, on December 17, 2022.
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