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Privacy Concerns in Whole Body Imaging: A Few Questions
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AMSecurity versus Privacy...it is a question that the world is facing today when it comes to using the Whole Body Imaging technology to screen a traveller visually in airports and other places. By giving real life examples from different parts of the world Elonnai Hickok points out that even if the Government of India eventually decides to advocate the tight security measures with some restrictions then such measures need to balanced against concerns raised for personal freedom. She further argues that privacy is not just data protection but something which must be viewed holistically and contextually when assessing new policies.
Privacy, Free/Open Source, and the Cloud
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:50 AMA look into the questions that arise in concern to privacy and cloud computing, and how open source plays into the picture.
Moldova Online: An Interview with Victor Diaconu
— by Sudha Rajagopalan — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:10 AMIn this interview for Russian Cyberspace, set up with the help of Sunil Abraham (Executive Director at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India), computer software professional Victor Diaconu explains the nature of Internet use, state control and the development of blogging and social media platforms in Moldova. Victor works at Computaris in Chisinau. He is Moldova educated, and has travelled to several western countries (including lengthy stays to US, UK) to learn about and understand what there is to be done in Moldova. Sudha Rajagopalan interviewed Victor Diaconu.
Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A Report
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AMOn Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation explained the vision of the project and focused on the challenges involved in demographic and biometric identification, the technology adopted, and the enrolment process. Elonnai Hickok gives a report of his presentation in this blog post.
Beyond Access as Inclusion
— by Anja Kovacs — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AMOn 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
Cybercrime and Privacy
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 14, 2010 01:21 PMElonnai Hickok examines privacy in the context of India’s legal provisions on cybercrime. She picks up the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act as amended in 2008 dealing with cyber crimes and provides a fair analysis of the pros and cons of the amended Act.
Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PMIndia's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
Summary of UID Public Meeting, August 25 2010
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:28 AMA summary of the "No UID" public meeting that took place on Aug. 25th at the Constitution Club, New Dehli.
No UID Campaign in New Delhi - A Report
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jun 20, 2012 03:51 AMThe Unique Identification (UID) Bill is not pro-citizen. The scheme is deeply undemocratic, expensive and fraught with unforseen consequences. A public meeting on UID was held at the Constitution Club, Rafi Marg in New Delhi on 25 August, 2010. The said Bill came under scrutiny at the meeting which was organised by civil society groups from Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi campaigning under the banner of "No UID". The speakers brought to light many concerns, unanswered questions and problems of the UID scheme.
Wherever you are, whatever you do
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:12 AMFacebook recently launched a location-based service called Places. Privacy advocates are resenting to this new development. Sunil Abraham identifies the three prime reasons for this outcry against Facebook. The article was published in the Indian Express on 23 August, 2010.
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