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Mobile Broadband: Leveraging for Business Transformation
Mobile India 2013 is being held at the Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore on 9 January 2013. Sunil Abraham is speaking at this event.
Indian government websites: Gold mine for cybercriminals
If you are a cybercriminal trying to commit identity theft or digitally impersonate a citizen, you have help from the unlikeliest of sources — the Government of India.
2012 in Review: Biometric ID Systems Grew Internationally...and So Did Concerns about Privacy
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy.
The year social media came of age in India
Sambhavi Saxena, 19, was at Jantar Mantar on December 25 protesting against Nirbhaya's brutal rape when Delhi Police swooped down, rounded her up along with other agitators and took them to the Parliament Street police station. Sambhavi fired tweet after tweet even as she was bundled into a van.
A note of dissent on cash transfers and UID
The following is the text of a note released by 208 scholars, activists and concerned citizens on the United Progressive Alliance government’s plan to introduce cash transfers linked to the Aadhaar (UID) numbers of beneficiaries:
UN agrees to review agencies governing Internet
Although India’s proposal has been criticized as an effort to control the Net, govt says this will ensure it has more say in policymaking.
No fear of losing internet freedom till Jan 15: Experts
There is no need to get scared about losing internet freedom, at least till January 2015.
Delhi gang rape: What Facebook, Twitter expose about govt
When constable Subhash Tomar collapsed during the anti-rape agitation in New Delhi, the government was keen to say he suffered injuries inflicted by the protesters. But the administration's version of events was challenged soon on social media, and the mainstream media latched onto the mystery and started pressurising the government to come clean.
WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’
In a swift 15 minute session this morning delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization extraordinary assembly agreed to convene a high-level meeting in Morocco in June to finalise a treaty on international exceptions to copyrights on books in special formats for visually impaired people.
International treaty to make books accessible to the blind
It would make it legal to send accessible books across borders.
Disability groups in India welcome progress on treaty for blind persons
Four years of struggle for a global treaty for the benefit of blind persons is finally bearing fruit. Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation have agreed to conclude a treaty for visually-impaired and print disabled persons by June 2013.
‘The IT Act is fine, but its interpretation is not’
Several organisations such as the Alternate Law Forum and Centre for Internet and Society are campaigning to amend the IT Act 2000. However, SV Raghavan, scientific secretary, office of PSA to the government of India, stated that the law in place is fine but the stakeholders need to be educated on implementing it better.
State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp
A two-day conference was held in Rio on December 13 and 14 at Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event and made a presentation on MLATS and International Cooperation for Law Enforcement Purposes.
Govt likely to issue guidelines to clarify IT rules soon
Norms relate to the role of intermediaries such as telcos, Web service providers, others on hosting content online, writes Surabhi Agarwal.
The freedom of expression debate: The State must mend fences with The Web
A fortnight after her arrest, Renu Srinivasan spends her free time singing Ashley Tisdale's number Suddenly. The lyrics - Suddenly people know my name, suddenly, everything has changed - resonate with the story of her life ever since she 'liked' and 'shared' her friend, Shaheen Dhada's, 21, controversial post regarding Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook on November 18 and got arrested for it.
Hacktivists deface BSNL website
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) website, www.bsnl.co.in, was hacked and defaced on Thursday afternoon.
Ayodhya trending on Twitter sparks censorship concerns
On the 20th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, the ShauryaDiwas, Ayodhya and Babri Masjid hashtags were trending on Twitter all day, with almost 2,500 messages sent over 48 hours.
Leslie Chan Lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore
Prof. Leslie Chan from the University of Toronto, Canada is giving a series of lectures in Tiruvananthapuram and Mysore from December 17, 2012 to December 19, 2012.
66A ‘cut & paste job’
The controversial Section 66A of the Information Technology Act has borrowed words out of context from British and American laws, according to lawyers here who are calling it a “poor cut-and-paste job”.
I&N Partners’ Meeting – Rio
Information and Networks Partners is organising this event in Rio de Janerio on December 11 - 13, 2012. Sunil Abraham is participating as a speaker in the session on Open Business and IP.
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