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- Identities Research — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 12, 2017 01:54 PM
- Caribou Digital organized an identity research event in Bengaluru at TERI on April 6, 2017. A total of 16 participants attended the event. Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash represented CIS at the event.
- Mobile Accessibility Practices — by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified Apr 12, 2017 01:48 PM
- Over the past few months the Centre for Internet & Society along with some like minded organizations had been working on framing a feasible accessibility guidelines for mobile apps which they could recommend to the Government of India, since there is no single standard in existence at the moment.
- Privacy in the Age of Big Data — by Amber Sinha — last modified Apr 11, 2017 02:43 PM
- Personal data is freely accessible, shared and even sold, and those to whom this information belongs have little control over its flow.
- Privacy, what? Bengaluru police leaks 46,000 phone numbers on Twitter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 07, 2017 02:57 AM
- Bengaluru police made the biggest goof up of all time by releasing private information of people who called 100 to complain since April 2015 and was seemingly unapologetic about the breach of privacy.
- India’s National ID Program May Be Turning The Country Into A Surveillance State — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 07, 2017 12:49 PM
- For seven years, India’s government has been scanning the irises and fingerprints of its citizens into a massive database. The once voluntary program was intended to fix the country’s corrupt welfare schemes, but critics worry about its Orwellian overtones.
- NGOs, individuals urge state CMs to curb Internet shutdown — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 07, 2017 02:43 AM
- Amid rising instances of Internet curbs, a group of individuals and organisations have urged the chief ministers of 12 states to only restrict specific online content rather than resort to complete shutdown.
- Bengaluru cops' twitter handle in ethical storm — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 07, 2017 02:38 AM
- The city's privacy activists are among the most strident in trying to prevent the Union government from gaining unprecedented access to citizens' personal information through Aadhaar. But in their own backyard, Bengaluru police have been publishing on Twitter the phone numbers of thousands of citizens reporting various crimes such as gambling on the streets, random quarrels and harassment of women.
- Right to be Forgotten: A Tale of Two Judgements — by Amber Sinha — last modified Apr 07, 2017 02:27 AM
- In the last few months, there have been contrasting judgments from two Indian high courts, Karnataka and Gujarat, on matters relating to the right to be forgotten. The two high courts heard pleas on issues to do the right of individuals to have either personal information redacted from the text of judgments available online or removal of such judgment from publically available sources.
- Aadhaar marks a fundamental shift in citizen-state relations: From ‘We the People’ to ‘We the Government’ — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 04, 2017 04:10 PM
- Your fingerprints, iris scans, details of where you shop. Compulsory Aadhaar means all this data is out there. And it’s still not clear who can view or use it.
- Get an Aadhaar card if you don't have one — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2017 03:39 PM
- The Aadhaar number has been made compulsory for filing tax return. With both the government and private parties insisting on it for various activities despite the Supreme Court's assertion that is not mandatory, you need to get one at the earliest.
- Organisational Hurdles in Telecom — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Apr 04, 2017 03:28 PM
- The mobile telephony sector has not just plateaued but begun a downward spiral, with revenues dropping for the first time in a decade after Reliance Jio’s entry, by about 20 per cent. Considering the staggering government collections of around Rs 3,00,000 crore by way of charges and taxes over the past decade from investments of about Rs 2,00,000 crore, it would appear that the sector has paid too dearly.
- Digitisation, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Orientation Workshop at Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune District — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:37 AM
- A digitization workshop was held at Vigyan Ashram, following the success of the introductory workshop in February.
- The Aadhaar of all things — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 03, 2017 03:46 PM
- From a severely critical stand against Aadhaar in 2014, the Modi-led BJP in power has made a sharp U-turn to bulldoze its way into having every Indian scanned, tagged and labelled. A timeline of the country’s chequered date with the unique identification project.
- Digital native: You can check out, you can never leave — by Nishant Shah — last modified May 05, 2017 01:31 AM
- Aadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
- Analysis of Key Provisions of the Aadhaar Act Regulations — by Amber Sinha — last modified Apr 03, 2017 02:05 PM
- In exercise of their powers under of the powers conferred by Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, (Aadhaar Act) the UIDAI has come out with a set of five regulations in late 2016 last year. In this policy brief, we look at the five regulations, their key provisions and highlight point out the unresolved, issues, unaddressed, and created issues as result of these regulations.
- It’s the technology, stupid — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 07, 2017 12:53 PM
- Eleven reasons why the Aadhaar is not just non-smart but also insecure.
- How Aadhaar compromises privacy? And how to fix it? — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 01, 2017 07:00 AM
- Aadhaar is mass surveillance technology. Unlike targeted surveillance which is a good thing, and essential for national security and public order – mass surveillance undermines security. And while biometrics is appropriate for targeted surveillance by the state – it is wholly inappropriate for everyday transactions between the state and law abiding citizens.
- WISER Lecture : Sumandro Chattapadhyay on Deregulation by Code — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 29, 2017 11:48 AM
- University of the Witwatersrand organized a talk by Sumandro Chattapadhyay on Derugulation by Code on March 8, 2017 in Johannesburg.
- Internet Freedom Festival 2017 — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 29, 2017 11:24 AM
- The Global Unconference of the Internet Freedom Communities took place at Valencia in Spain from March 6 to 10, 2017. The event was organized by the IFF. Vidushi Marda on behalf of CIS took part in the event.
- CUSAT Workshop: "Rethinking IPR: Fourth Annual National Workshop for Law Students" — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 29, 2017 10:59 AM
- The workshop was organized by the Inter University Centre for IPR Studies in association with Cochin University of Science and Technology from February 8 to 10, 2017 in Cochin. Pranesh Prakash was the resource person for a copyright workshop for LL.M. students.
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