Internet Governance Blog
RTI regarding Smart Cities Mission in India
— by Paul Thottan — last modified Apr 21, 2016 02:25 AMCentre for Internet & Society (CIS) had filed an RTI on 3 February 2016 before the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) regarding the Smart Cities Mission in India. The RTI sought information regarding the role of various foreign governments, private industry, multilateral bodies that will provide technical and financial assistance for this project and information on Government agreements regarding PPP’s for financing the project.
The Last Chance for a Welfare State Doesn’t Rest in the Aadhaar System
— by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 19, 2016 01:18 PMBoosting welfare is the message, which is how Aadhaar is being presented in India. The Aadhaar system as a medium, however, is one that enables tracking, surveillance, and data monetisation. This piece by Sumandro Chattapadhyay was published in The Wire on April 19, 2016.
Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things Offline
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:26 AMAs governments use their power to erase what they do not approve of from the web, cloud storage will not be enough.
Aadhaar Act and its Non-compliance with Data Protection Law in India
— by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Apr 18, 2016 11:43 AMThis post compares the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016, with India's data protection regime as articulated in the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011.
FAQ on the Aadhaar Project and the Bill
— by Elonnai Hickok, Vanya Rakesh, and Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Apr 13, 2016 02:06 PMThis FAQ attempts to address the key questions regarding the Aadhaar/UIDAI project and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 (henceforth, Bill). This is neither a comprehensive list of questions, nor does it contain fully developed answers. We will continue to add questions to this list, and edit/expand the answers, based on our ongoing research. We will be grateful to receive your comments, criticisms, evidences, edits, suggestions for new answers, and any other responses. These can either be shared as comments in the document hosted on Google Drive, or via tweets sent to the information policy team at @CIS_InfoPolicy.
Surveillance Project
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Apr 05, 2016 03:21 PMThe Aadhaar project’s technological design and architecture is an unmitigated disaster and no amount of legal fixes in the Act will make it any better.
A Large Byte of Your Life
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:35 AMWith the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering.
Mapping MAG: A study in Institutional Isomorphism
— by Jyoti Panday — last modified Mar 03, 2017 12:59 AMThe paper is an update to a shorter piece of MAG analysis that had been conducted in July 2015. At that time our analysis was limited by the MAG membership data that was made available by the Secretariat. Subsequently we wrote to the Secretariat and this paper is based on the data shared by them including for the years for which membership details were previously not available.
Will Aadhaar Act Address India’s Dire Need For a Privacy Law?
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Apr 05, 2016 04:01 PMTRAI Consultation on Differential Pricing for Data Services - Post-Open House Discussion Submission
— by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 30, 2016 01:13 PMThe Centre for Internet and Society sent this submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) following the Open House Discussion on Differential Pricing of Data Services, held in Delhi on February 21, 2016.
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