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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.
Ethical Issues in Open Data
— by Kovey Coles — last modified Aug 07, 2013 09:19 AMOn August 1, 2013, I took part in a web meeting, organized and hosted by Tim Davies of the World Wide Web foundation. The meeting, titled “Ethical issues in Open Data,” had an agenda focused around privacy considerations in the context of the open data movement.
'Ethical Hacker' Saket Modi Calls for Stronger Cyber Security Discussions
— by Kovey Coles — last modified Aug 05, 2013 01:11 PMTwenty-two year old Saket Modi is the CEO and co-founder of Lucideus, a leading cyber security company in India which claims to have worked with 4 out of 5 top global e-commerce companies, 4 out of 10 top IT companies in the world, and 3 out of 5 top banks of the Asia Pacific.
CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 9) - Saikat Datta
— by Purba Sarkar — last modified Aug 05, 2013 05:24 AMCIS interviews Saikat Datta, Resident Editor of DNA, Delhi, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Guidelines for the Protection of National Critical Information Infrastructure: How Much Regulation?
— by Jonathan Diamond — last modified Aug 01, 2013 04:48 AMJuly has been a busy month for cyber security in India. Beginning with the release of the country’s first National Cyber Security Policy on July 2 and followed just this past week by a set of guidelines for the protection of national critical information infrastructure (CII) developed under the direction of the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), India has made respectable progress in its thinking on national cyber security.
India's National Cyber Security Policy in Review
— by Jonathan Diamond — last modified Jul 31, 2013 10:40 AMEarlier this month, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology released India’s first National Cyber Security Policy. Years in the making, the Policy sets high goals for cyber security in India and covers a wide range of topics, from institutional frameworks for emergency response to indigenous capacity building.
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