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- Surveillance Camp IV: Disproportionate State Surveillance - A Violation of Privacy — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Feb 19, 2013 12:37 PM
- This is the fourth in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF's State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This article has been co-written with Elonnai Hickok — Centre for Internet and Society India, and a speaker at EFF's Camp.
- Why was the Gwalior court in such a hurry to block IIPM URLs? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 19, 2013 11:51 AM
- Is it really that easy to get courts to block online content as it appears from the latest case of the blocking of 73 URLs related to IIPM? Legally speaking, yes.
- The Omnishambles of UID, shrouded in its RTI opacity — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Feb 19, 2013 11:04 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society sponsored Colonel Mathew Thomas to hold a workshop at the fourth National Right to Information (RTI) organized by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, held in Hyderabad from February 15 to 18, 2013.
- Indian Users’ Perspective On WIPO Negotiations On Treaty For Visually Impaired — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 18, 2013 09:07 AM
- South-East Asia is host to one-third of the world’s 39 million blind people. Over 20 million live in India alone. This week’s special session of the World Intellectual Property Organization aims to clean up the text of an international treaty to facilitate access to books for the blind and visually impaired community. It is thus of prime importance for India, and some there worry that issues such as commercial availability could undermine the treaty’s effectiveness.
- Freedom of Expression Gagged — by Chinmayi Arun — last modified Feb 18, 2013 08:55 AM
- The use of law to bully people into silence, called ‘heckler’s veto’, is not unique to India, writes Chinmayi Arun in this op-ed published in Business Line on February 15, 2013.
- One For All — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 04, 2013 04:13 AM
- The importance of making information accessible and universal.
- Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked URLs by Department of Telecommunications (IIPM Edition) — by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Feb 17, 2013 07:35 AM
- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in its order dated February 14, 2013 has issued directions to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block seventy eight URLs. The block order has been issued as a result of a court order. Snehashish Ghosh does a preliminary analysis of the list of websites blocked as per the DoT order.
- National Resource Kit : The Bihar Chapter (Call for Comments) — by Manojna Yeluri — last modified Mar 05, 2013 05:09 AM
- The Centre for Internet & Society and the Hans Foundation are pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Bihar.
- Hate speech: ban or ignore? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 13, 2013 09:40 AM
- The Social Network discusses the hate speeches: whether they should be banned or ignored. Why does the state take action against some and not against some others. This on a day when Togadia and Owaisi were simultaneously trending on the social media.
- Freedom of expression online: identifying and addressing challenges and developing a shared vision and a working partnership (WP1216) — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 28, 2013 08:49 AM
- Wilton Park organized this event at Wiston House, Sussex, UK from February 13 to 15, 2013. Pranesh Prakash participated in it.
- Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in Kashmir — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 01, 2013 04:46 AM
- Hacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day by authorities after the hanging of Afzal Guru, a key accused in the Parliament attack case.
- Indian net service providers too play censorship tricks — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 13, 2013 04:20 AM
- The study by a Canadian university has found that some major Indian ISPs have deployed web-censorship and filtering technology.
- 2012: Privacy Highlights in India — by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Feb 12, 2013 12:39 PM
- In this blog post, Elonnai Hickok summarizes the top privacy moments of 2012 in India. In doing so she lists out the major ones like the Report of Group of Experts on Privacy, the RIM Standoff, the Nira Radia controversy, the Centralized Monitoring System, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, NATGRID, CCTNS, the growth of CCTVs, the leaked DNA Profiling Bill, and the UID project.
- Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society — by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM
- We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They have become the default metaphor of our times, where everything from infrastructure assemblies to collectives of people, are all described through the lens of a network.
- A Lightness of Spirit — by Lawrence Liang — last modified Feb 11, 2013 06:28 AM
- Disability activist Rahul Cherian leaves a legacy of thinking about human rights as rights for the maximum enjoyment of life.
- Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu Vardhan — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 11, 2013 06:22 AM
- Vishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in Bangalore.
- Rahul Cherian passes away — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 10, 2013 04:27 AM
- Rahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
- Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available! — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 01, 2013 05:07 AM
- The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
- Online Abuse of Teen Girls in Kashmir Leads to Arrests — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 06, 2013 03:51 AM
- Online abuse and a fatwa aimed at a rock band of Muslim teenage girls in Kashmir have led to arrests and a threat of a lawsuit.
- Rahul Cherian, founder of NGO Inclusive Planet, passes away — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 09, 2013 06:57 AM
- Rahul Cherian, who worked extensively on disability law and rights in India, and other issues like intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday while on on a family holiday in Goa according to this report in the Hindu.
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