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- Election Experiment Proves Facebook Just Doesn't Care About Fake News In India
- Much-hyped fact-checking initiative identified only 30 bits of fake news in month-long Karnataka campaign. Yup — 30! by Admin — last modified May 31, 2018 10:56 PM — Filed under: Social Media, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Press Coverage of Online Censorship Row
- We are maintaining a rolling blog with press references to the row created by the proposal by the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 08, 2011 11:31 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Links, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Facebook, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- Digital India: Did Modi get it wrong in Silicon Valley?
- A bear hug, a photo filter and a new debate on net neutrality - Ayeshea Perera examines the domestic fallout of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 04:44 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Google, Facebook, Internet Governance
- How To Win Friends, FB Style
- True to form—and Facebook—there was a warm, friendly and familial feel to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s townhall meeting at Melon, California, with Mark ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 12:02 PM — Filed under: Social Media, Facebook, Internet Governance
- What Bengaluru Thinks of the Big Tech Announcements in Silicon Valley
- There is a split verdict on the big tech announcements made out of California during the Prime Minister's visit, in the desi version of Silicon Valley - ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 01:26 PM — Filed under: Social Media, Facebook, Internet Governance
- After data leak row, Facebook imposes restrictions on user data access
- MEIT issues notice to Facebook even as experts debate absolute impact on the second largest developer community. by Admin — last modified Apr 07, 2018 03:30 PM — Filed under: Facebook, Internet Governance, Privacy
- Government gives free publicity worth 40k to Twitter and Facebook
- We conducted a 2 week survey of newspapers for links between government advertisement to social media giants. As citizens, we should be worried about the close ... by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Apr 27, 2018 09:52 AM — Filed under: Google, Instagram, Privacy, Twitter, YouTube, Internet Governance, Featured, Google Plus, Facebook, Homepage
- The Competition Law Case Against Whatsapp’s 2021 Privacy Policy Alteration
- Having examined the privacy implications of Whatsapp's changes to its privacy policy in 2021, this issue brief is the second output in our series examining the ... by Aman Nair and Arindrajit Basu — last modified Mar 24, 2021 04:12 PM — Filed under: Consumer Rights, Digital Economy, Data Protection, Facebook, Competition, WhatsApp, Competition Law
- India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook
- ALWAR, India — Connecting people to the Internet is not easy in this impoverished farming district of wheat and millet fields, where working camels can be ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 03, 2016 01:49 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Free Basics, Internet Governance, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Facebook
- India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poor
- India’s telecom regulator said Monday that service providers cannot charge discriminatory prices for Internet services, a blow to Facebook’s global effort to ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 10, 2016 02:53 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Free Basics, Internet Governance, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Facebook
- India Sets Strict New Net Neutrality Rules
- In India, advocates of net neutrality have welcomed new rules by the telecom regulator that have blocked efforts by Facebook to offer free but limited access ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 11, 2016 01:53 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Free Basics, Net Neutrality, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Facebook, Internet Governance
- There is No Such Thing as Free Basics
- India would not see the rain of Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they could benefit from ... by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 14, 2016 11:37 AM — Filed under: Free Basics, TRAI, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
- Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, RAW Publications, Campaign, Digital Natives, Agency, Blank Noise Project, Featured, Cybercultures, Facebook, Publications, Beyond the Digital, Digital subjectivities, Books, Researchers at Work
- ISIS and Recruitment using Social Media – Roundtable Report
- The Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the Takshashila Institution held a roundtable discussion on “ISIS and Recruitment using Social Media” ... by Vidushi Marda, Aditya Tejus, Megha Nambiar and Japreet Grewal — last modified Dec 16, 2016 02:19 AM — Filed under: Social Media, ISIS, Countering Violent Extremism, Twitter, Internet Governance, Facebook, Online Recruitment
- PDP Bill is coming: WhatsApp Privacy Policy analysis
- WhatsApp started off the new year with changes to its privacy policy that has several implications for data protection and the digital governance ecosystem at ... by Pallavi Bedi & Shweta Reddy — last modified Jan 19, 2021 08:12 AM — Filed under: WhatsApp, Facebook, Privacy
- Ahead of hosting Modi, Facebook rebrands internet.org as Free Basics
- Hinting at what could be vital points of discussion when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, the social media giant ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 18, 2015 02:21 PM — Filed under: Social Media, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Submission to the Facebook Oversight Board: Policy on Cross-checks
- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board on a policy consultation. by [in alphabetical order] Anamika Kundu, Digvijay Singh, Divyansha Sehgal and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Feb 09, 2022 05:31 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Freedom, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Content Removal on Facebook — A Case of Privatised Censorship?
- Any activity on Facebook, be it creating an account, posting a picture or status update or creating a group or page, is bound by Facebook’s Terms of Service ... by Jessamine Mathew — last modified Jun 16, 2014 05:23 AM — Filed under: Facebook, Internet Governance, Censorship, Privacy
- WSIS+10 High Level Event: A Bird's Eye Report
- The WSIS+10 High Level was organised by the ITU and collaborative UN entities on June 9-13, 2014. It aimed to evaluate the progress on implementation of WSIS ... by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 20, 2014 03:57 PM — Filed under: WSIS+10, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Human Rights Online, Surveillance, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Facebook, Data Protection, Multi-stakeholder, ICANN, Internet Access, ITU, Internet Studies, E-Governance, ICT
- Reading the Fine Script: Service Providers, Terms and Conditions and Consumer Rights
- This year, an increasing number of incidents, related to consumer rights and service providers, have come to light. This blog illustrates the facts of the ... by Jyoti Panday — last modified Jul 04, 2014 06:31 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Consumer Rights, Google, internet and society, Privacy, Transparency and Accountability, Intermediary Liability, Accountability, Facebook, Data Protection, Policies, Safety
- Facebook and its Aversion to Anonymous and Pseudonymous Speech
- Jessamine Mathew explores Facebook's "real name" policy and its implications for the right to free speech. by Jessamine Mathew — last modified Jul 04, 2014 07:53 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Facebook, Chilling Effect, Anonymity, Pseudonimity, Article 19(1)(a)
- The (in)Visible Subject: Power, Privacy and Social Networking
- In this entry, I will argue that the interplay between privacy and power on social network sites works ultimately to subject individuals to the gaze of others, ... by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM — Filed under: Social Networking, Attention Economy, Facebook, Privacy
- Arbitrary Arrests for Comment on Bal Thackeray's Death
- Two girls have been arbitrarily and unlawfully arrested for making comments about the late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death. Pranesh Prakash explores ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 02, 2013 03:42 AM — Filed under: IPC, IT Act, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Featured, Facebook, Censorship
- Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price
- Who could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 30, 2016 11:32 AM — Filed under: Free Basics, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Linking Facebook use to free top-up data
- Just before the Trai notification, the Ambani brothers signed a spectrum sharing pact and they have been sharing optic fibre since 2013. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 14, 2016 12:33 PM — Filed under: Digital Media, Facebook, Internet Governance, Social Media
- Zuckerberg's Plan Spurned as India Backs Full Net Neutrality
- Facebook Inc.’s plans for expansion in India have suffered a major setback. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 15, 2016 02:18 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Free Basics, TRAI, Net Neutrality, Facebook, Internet Governance
- Facebook is censoring some posts on Indian Kashmir
- Film makers, activists and journalists accused Facebook of blocking their accounts this week after they posted messages and images related to the violence in ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 28, 2016 03:03 AM — Filed under: Facebook, Internet Governance
- We Truly are the Product being Sold
- WhatsApp has announced it will begin sharing user data such as names, phone numbers, and other analytics with its parent company, Facebook, and with the ... by Vidushi Marda — last modified Sep 01, 2016 02:08 AM — Filed under: Social Media, WhatsApp, Facebook, Internet Governance
- India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderism
- Cyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 26, 2012 01:45 PM — Filed under: IT Act, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Encryption, Intermediary Liability, Facebook, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Facebook Shares 10 Key Facts about Free Basics. Here's What's Wrong with All 10 of Them.
- Shweta Sengar of Catch News spoke to Sunil Abraham about the recent advertisement by Facebook titled "What Net Neutrality Activists won't Tell You or, the Top ... by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 25, 2015 02:59 PM — Filed under: Net Neutrality, Featured, Facebook, Internet Governance, Homepage
