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Privacy after Big Data - Workshop Report
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Sarai programme, CSDS, organised a workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?' on ... by Amber Sinha last modified Jan 27, 2017 01:09 AM — Filed under: ,
Crowdsourced innovation for government projects and services is easier said than done
Late January. The buzz was palpable at the MLR Convention Centre in South Bengaluru. Developers were streaming into 50p, a conference organised by HasGeek, ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 07, 2017 03:36 PM — Filed under: ,
Giving out your fingerprint for Aadhar payments is as bad as telling the seller your banking password
PRS India recently released a report card enlisting the status of all the major policy announcements made by the President on India in his address to the ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 07, 2017 04:09 PM — Filed under: ,
Vidhi Doshi - Fingerprint Payments Prompt Privacy Fears in India (The Guardian)
This article by Vidhi Doshi on the use of Aadhaar-based payments by private companies in India was published by The Guardian on February 09, 2017. Sumandro ... by Vidhi Doshi last modified Feb 13, 2017 09:21 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Digital illusions
The Watal Committee’s report presents the government with an impossible road map to a cashless nirvana. by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 16, 2017 02:53 PM — Filed under: , ,
No Genie At Your Fingertips
Aadhaar biometrics will now enable cashless shopping sans card and smartphone. A look at the hopes and fears. by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 16, 2017 04:02 PM — Filed under: , ,
Limits to Privacy
In this chapter we attempt to build a catalogue of these various justifications, without attempting to be exhaustive, with the objective of arriving at ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:28 AM — Filed under: ,
Locating Constructs of Privacy within Classical Hindu Law
This white paper seeks to locate privacy in Classical Hindu Law, and by doing so, displace the notion that privacy is an inherently ‘Western’ concept that is ... by Ashna Ashesh and Bhairav Acharya last modified Jan 01, 2015 01:56 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Roundtable on Indian Privacy Law and Policy
This event was hosted by the Centre for Law and Development of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) in Kochi. It was attended by members ... by Bhairav Acharya last modified Dec 27, 2014 02:18 PM — Filed under: ,
Relationship Between Privacy and Confidentiality
The laws of breach of confidentiality and breach of privacy at first glance seem very similar to each other. If a doctor releases health information relating ... by Vipul Kharbanda last modified Dec 30, 2014 02:27 PM — Filed under: ,
Winter School on Privacy, Surveillance and Data Protection
The Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Communication and Information at ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 07, 2015 12:37 AM — Filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society joins Worldwide Campaign to Discover Depth of GCHQ's Illegal Spying
The Centre for Internet and Society has joined an international campaign to allow anyone in the world to request whether Britain’s intelligence agency GCHQ has ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Mar 01, 2015 06:13 AM — Filed under: ,
The Surveillance Industry in India – An Analysis of Indian Security Expos
The author talks about the surveillance industry in India and analyses Indian security expos. by Divij Joshi last modified Mar 08, 2015 12:25 PM — Filed under: ,
GSMA Research Outputs
This is a collection of research under our GSMA project that we have undertaken in collaboration with Privacy International. The research has sought to ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Apr 06, 2015 02:18 PM — Filed under: , ,
India's plan to offer citizens digital lockers poses a privacy threat, say experts
The Indian government launched a test version of a service called the digital locker last month that allows citizens to store scanned versions of important ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 03, 2015 06:32 AM — Filed under: ,
Security, Governments and Data: Technology and Policy
On January 8, 2015, the Centre for Internet and Society, in collaboration with the Observer research foundation, hosted the day long conference "Security, ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Apr 04, 2015 05:59 AM — Filed under: ,
CIS submitted a response to a Notice of Enquiry by the US Government on International Internet Policy Priorities
The Centre for Internet and Society drafted a response to a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) issued by the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and ... by Akriti Bopanna and Swagam Dasgupta last modified Aug 24, 2018 07:05 AM — Filed under: ,
Srikrishna panel upset at timing of Trai suggestions
The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee, which is drafting a model data protection and privacy law for India, is upset by the timing of recommendations made by the ... by Admin last modified Jul 19, 2018 02:17 PM — Filed under: ,
WhatsApp races against time to fix fake news mess ahead of 2019 general elections
On Friday, when WhatsApp announced that it would pilot a ‘five media-based forwards limit’ in India, the government came up with an unequivocal reminder. by Admin last modified Jul 25, 2018 03:27 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Firms find wealth in your data
Data collection and theft is quite prevalent and there is little an individual can do right now. by Admin last modified Jul 25, 2018 04:06 PM — Filed under: ,
Govt asks CBI to probe Cambridge Analytica in data breach case
Centre directs social media platforms to take prompt action against fake messages by Admin last modified Jul 29, 2018 01:47 AM — Filed under: ,
Demonetisation Survey Limits the Range of Feedback that can be Provided by the User
The government has faced increasingly targeted attacks by the Opposition and the public on the merits of the demonetisation move carried out a fortnight ago. ... by tiwari last modified Nov 24, 2016 02:50 PM — Filed under: , ,
The Technology behind Big Data
The authors undertakes a high-level literature review of the most commonly used technological tools and processes in the big data life cycle. The big data life ... by Geethanjali Jujjavarapu and Udbhav Tiwari last modified Dec 04, 2016 09:53 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
No laws in India to protect customers if they lose money during digital transactions
The lack of basic privacy and security laws pertaining to digital payments in India puts the onus on consumers who use such services. by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 02, 2016 05:07 PM — Filed under: , ,
Developer team fixed vulnerabilities in Honorable PM's app and API
The official app of Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, was found to contain a security flaw in 2015 that exposed millions of people's personal data. A ... by Pranesh Prakash last modified Dec 04, 2016 07:08 PM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Your digital wallet can be a ‘pickpocket’
If you have installed a wallet app on your smartphone, be careful. Many such apps can access data, even sensitive personal information, and have features that ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 05, 2016 01:44 AM — Filed under: , ,
Industry Consultation Panel on Data Retention - DSCI
Udbhav Tiwari was a panelist for an Industry Consultation Panel on Data Retention organised by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) at the Le Meridian, ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 06, 2016 03:55 PM — Filed under: ,
Vijay Mallya cries foul after his Twitter and email accounts are hacked
The attackers said they were able to access over a gigabyte of data from Mallya's email. by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 10, 2016 01:50 PM — Filed under: ,
FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security Commitments
The unprecedented growth of the fintech space in India has concomitantly come with regulatory challenges around inter alia privacy and security concerns. This ... by Aayush Rathi and Shweta Mohandas last modified May 02, 2019 11:20 AM — Filed under: , , ,
How privacy fares in the 2019 election manifestos | Opinion
We now have a rights-based language around privacy in the mainstream political discourse but that’s where it ends. by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified May 02, 2019 01:49 AM — Filed under: ,