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Marco Civil da Internet: Brazil’s ‘Internet Constitution’
— by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 19, 2014 10:38 AMOn March 25, 2014, Brazil's lower house of parliament passed bill no. 2126/2011, popularly known as Marco Civil da Internet. The Marco Civil is a charter of Internet user-rights and service provider responsibilities, committed to freedom of speech and expression, privacy, and accessibility and openness of the Internet. In this post, the author looks at the pros and cons of the bill.
Surveillance and Privacy
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2014 06:02 AMPresented by Sunil Abraham at LirneAsia event on March 9, 2014 in Gurgaon.
Leaked Privacy Bill: 2014 vs. 2011
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Apr 01, 2014 10:52 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society has recently received a leaked version of the draft Privacy Bill 2014 that the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has drafted.
India's Internet Jam
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 20, 2014 12:41 PMAs authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp Deal
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:59 AMPrivacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as a standalone app?
New Standard Operating Procedures for Lawful Interception and Monitoring
— by Divij Joshi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:13 AMGovernment issues new guidelines to TSP’s to assist Lawful Interception and Monitoring.
Net Neutrality and Privacy
— by Divij Joshi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:01 AMThe highly contentious and polarising debate on net-neutrality will have a large impact on shaping the future of the internet and ultimately on the users of the internet. One important issue which needs to be prioritized while debating the necessity or desirability of a legal regime which advocates net-neutrality is its implication on privacy.
NTIA to give up control of the Internet's root
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 18, 2014 06:21 PMOn Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and that this would happen by September 2015. Pranesh Prakash provides a brief response to that announcement.
Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 3: The Public/Private Distinction and the Supreme Court’s Wrong Turn
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:02 PMAfter its decision in Gobind, the Supreme Court's privacy floodgates opened; a series of claims involving private parties came before its docket, and the resulting jurisprudence ended up creating confusion between state-individual surveillance, and individual-individual surveillance.
Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:58 AMThe wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
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