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- How Surveillance Works in India — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jul 15, 2013 10:20 AM
- When the Indian government announced it would start a Centralized Monitoring System in 2009 to monitor telecommunications in the country, the public seemed unconcerned. When the government announced that the system, also known as C.M.S., commenced in April, the news didn’t receive much attention.
- An Interview of Vera Franz — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 09:49 AM
- This interview was conducted at the Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities on June 26, 2013.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 6) - Lhadon Tethong — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Aug 01, 2013 09:54 AM
- CIS interviews Lhadon Tethong, Tibetan human rights activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
- How the world’s largest democracy is preparing to snoop on its citizens — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 09:41 AM
- Monitoring system will allow govt to snoop on voice calls, SMSes, and access Internet data.
- India’s Central Monitoring System: Security can’t come at cost of privacy — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 06:43 AM
- During a Google hangout session in June this year, Milind Deora, minister of state for communications and information technology, addressed concerns related to the central monitoring system (CMS).
- India's centralised snooping system facing big delays — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 06:35 AM
- Central Monitoring System lacks algorithms, database and data.
- Is CMS a Compromise of Your Security? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 06:27 AM
- By secretly monitoring and recording all Indians through a Central Monitoring System, our government will end up making citizens and businesses less safe.
- Moving Towards a Surveillance State — by Srinivas Atreya — last modified Jul 15, 2013 05:57 AM
- The cyberspace is a modern construct of communication and today, a large part of human activity takes place in cyberspace. It has become the universal platform where business is executed, discourse is conducted and personal information is exchanged. However, the underbelly of the internet is also seen to host activities and persons who are motivated by nefarious intent.
- India:Privacy in Peril — by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Sep 25, 2013 09:56 AM
- The danger of mass surveillance in India is for real. The absence of a regulating law is damning for Indians who want to protect their privacy against the juggernaut of state and private surveillance.
- Towards Critical Tool-building — by Sara Morais — last modified Jul 31, 2013 11:56 AM
- The last blogpost focused on the importance of design for digital humanities research and on the concept of universal design to make research work more inclusive as well as more accessible, the visual being something that digital humanities stress the importance of in their work. But research work has always been put into form, so aesthetics have played a role in traditional humanities work. What has changed and why is there a self-proclaimed shift towards design in the digital humanities?
- Telugu Wiki Academy at Centre for Good Governance — by T. Vishnu Vardhan — last modified Aug 19, 2013 06:49 AM
- An account of the Telugu Wiki Academy organized for the staff of Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad on April 9, 2013 at their Jubilee Hills premises.
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 5) - Amelia Andersdotter — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Aug 01, 2013 09:54 AM
- CIS interviews Amelia Andersdotter, member of the European parliament, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 4) - Marietje Schaake — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Jul 12, 2013 10:24 AM
- CIS interviews Marietje Schaake, member of the European parliament, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
- CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 3) - Eva Galperin — by Purba Sarkar — last modified Aug 01, 2013 09:55 AM
- CIS interviews Eva Galperin, Global Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- The Difficult Balance of Transparent Surveillance — by Kovey Coles — last modified Jul 15, 2013 04:23 AM
- Is it too much to ask for transparency in data surveillance? On occasion, companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and the other silicon valley giants would say no. When customers join these services, each company provides their own privacy statement which assures customers of the safety and transparency that accompanies their personal data.
- Building Up vs Tearing Down — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified Aug 02, 2013 07:06 AM
- We have to find ways to deal with corruption without subverting our developmental aims.
- dna exclusive: Geeks have a solution to digital surveillance in India: Cryptography — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 15, 2013 06:24 AM
- While you were thinking of what next to post on Twitter, the government has stealthily put an ambitious surveillance programme in place that tracks your every move in the digital world — through voice calls, SMS and MMS, GPRS, fax communications on landlines, video calls and emails.
- Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic Strategies — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 05, 2013 05:59 AM
- The fourth annual conference in political economy was organized by the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam at the Hague from July 9 - 13, 2013.
- Designing Change? Gatekeepers in Digital Humanities — by Sara Morais — last modified Jul 02, 2013 08:33 AM
- After defining the archive as one of the important concepts for digital humanities research, the question arose, whether or not a redefined archive still functions as a gatekeeper. This blog entry follows the question, if the digital humanities have overcome gatekeepers of knowledge, or if there has simply been a shift in what is doing the gatekeeping.
- WIPO reaches agreement on treaty for blind — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 01, 2013 09:59 AM
- Officials at the World Intellectual Property Organisation have reached an agreement to provide wider access to books for the visually impaired in different countries, a long-pending demand of the World Blind Union and activist groups.
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