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- Project Loon — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 09, 2015 04:17 PM
- Billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don’t reach.
- Make our digital backyard safe — by Nilanjana Bhowmick — last modified Feb 18, 2019 02:37 PM
- India has been patting itself on the back for being at the forefront of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ driven by digitisation. Reports have gushed about the speed and scale of digitisation. But this speed and scale have come at a cost to our privacy.
- Even years later, Twitter doesn't delete your direct messages — by Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas — last modified Feb 18, 2019 02:17 PM
- When does “delete” really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you’re Twitter .
- Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops — by Saumyaa Naidu — last modified Feb 26, 2019 01:53 AM
- Centre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
- ‘Willing to participate, but need more time’: Twitter on parliamentary panel hearing — by Smriti Kak Ramachandran and Vidhi Choudhary — last modified Feb 15, 2019 02:29 AM
- Executives from social media firm Twitter’s US headquarters will not appear before a parliamentary panel that has summoned them on Monday over perceived bias towards right-wing handles on the micro-blogging platform.
- Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention? — by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM
- In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
- Mini MediaWiki Training Theni — by Ananth — last modified Feb 13, 2019 02:34 AM
- CIS-A2k is trying to strengthen the MediaWiki movement in India, and over the last six months, the team has collaborated with different Indian Wikimedians and started a project called Indic-TechCom.
- What the government's draft IT intermediary guidelines say — by Admin — last modified Feb 13, 2019 12:31 AM
- Intermediaries will have to hand over to government agencies any information within 72 hours. Intermediaries will have to use automated tools to trace the person posting unlawful content.
- Intermediary liability law needs updating — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Feb 13, 2019 12:05 AM
- The time has come for India to exert its foreign policy muscle. There is a less charitable name for intermediary liability regimes like Sec 79 of the IT Act — private censorship regimes.
- CIS Comment on ICANN's Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget — by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Feb 12, 2019 11:44 PM
- At the Centre for Internet and Society, we are grateful for the opportunity to provide our comments on the proposed draft of ICANN’s FY20 Operating Plan and Budget along with their Five-Year Operating Plan Update. As part of the public comment process, ICANN provided a list of documents which can be found here that included their highlights of the budget, the total draft budget for FY20, an operating plan segregated by portfolios, amongst others.
- The Future of Work in the Automotive Sector in India — by Harsh Bajpai, Ambika Tandon, and Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 18, 2020 09:00 AM
- This report empirically studies the future of work in the automotive sector in India. The report has been authored by Harsh Bajpai, Ambika Tandon and Amber Sinha. Rakhi Sehgal and Aayush Rathi have edited the report.
- Response to the Draft of The Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018 — by Gurshabad Grover, Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Akriti — last modified Feb 07, 2019 08:06 AM
- In this response, we aim to examine whether the draft rules meet tests of constitutionality and whether they are consistent with the parent Act. We also examine potential harms that may arise from the Rules as they are currently framed and make recommendations to the draft rules that we hope will help the Government meet its objectives while remaining situated within the constitutional ambit.
- CIS Submission to UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation — by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok — last modified Feb 07, 2019 07:26 AM
- The UN high-level panel on Digital Cooperation issued a call for inputs that called for responses to various questions. CIS responded to the call for inputs.
- Supporting Indian Community 2018: Needs Assessment — by Tito Dutta — last modified Feb 06, 2019 09:46 PM
- The Wikimedia Foundation and Google worked in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. Here is the needs-assessment report.
- India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws — by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 04, 2019 02:05 AM
- The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
- MediaNama roundtables on intermediary liability rules — by Admin — last modified Feb 17, 2019 03:59 PM
- MediaNama hosted one policy round-table on Intermediary Liability protections in Bangalore and another round-table in New Delhi, to discuss inputs sought by MEITY on the amendments to Safe Harbor for platforms (payments services, content services, ISPs, etc.) in India. Centre for Internet & Society is a community partner for the event.
- Dissent on Aadhaar: New book highlights limitations of ID project, legal and tech opposition to it — by Admin — last modified Feb 02, 2019 01:13 PM
- In 2010, a year after the UIDAI was constituted, three of its functionaries visited internationally-renowned developmental economist Professor Reetika Khera.
- DSCI's Bangalore chapter meet — by Admin — last modified Feb 02, 2019 01:47 AM
- On January 29, 2019, Karan Saini and Gurshabad Grover participated in the Bangalore chapter meet organized by Data Security Council of India in Bangalore.
- Marathi Wikipedia Workshop & 1lib1ref session at Goa University — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Mar 01, 2019 12:35 AM
- Marathi language department of Goa University has initiated the process to document the culture of Goa on Marathi Wikipedia and Commons.
- Conmen seed fake phone numbers in Google to trap people looking for customer care details — by Admin — last modified Feb 01, 2019 03:22 PM
- Googling for anything might seem like a good idea, but searching for contacts of businesses and customer care numbers is landing people in the hands of conmen.
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