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Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1)
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 06, 2013 09:37 AMIn this series of blog posts, Pranesh Prakash looks at a brief history of misuse of surveillance powers in India. He notes that the government's surveillance powers have been freqently misused, very often without any kind of judicial or political redressal. This, he argues, should lead us as concerned citizens to demand a scaling down of the government's surveillance powers and pass laws to put it place more robust oversight mechanisms.
Chances and Risks of Social Participation
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 30, 2013 09:13 AMI Just Pinged to Say Hello
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:36 AMA host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
Open Secrets
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:21 AMWe need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Nov 30, 2013 07:25 AMThe United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
Why 'Facebook' is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You
— by Maria Xynou — last modified Nov 23, 2013 08:38 AMIn this article, Maria Xynou looks at state and corporate surveillance in India and analyzes why our "choice" to hand over our personal data can potentially be more harmful than traditional, top-down, state surveillance. Read this article and perhaps reconsider your "choice" to use social networking sites, such as Facebook.
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