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Aadhaar Bill fails to incorporate suggestions by the Standing Committee
— by Amber Sinha — last modified Mar 10, 2016 03:58 PMIn 2011, a standing committee report led by Yashwant Sinha had been scathing in its indictments of the Aadhaar BIll introduced by the UPA government. Five years later, the NDA government has introduced a new bill which is a rehash of the same. I look at the concerns raised by the committee report, none of which have been addressed by the new bill.
A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill
— by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Mar 09, 2016 04:08 AMThis blog post does a clause-by-clause comparison of the provisions of National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Apr 06, 2016 03:31 PMWhile one wishes to welcome govt’s attempt to bring Aadhaar within a legislative framework, the fact is there are too many problems that still remain unaddressed for one to be optimistic.
Flaws in the UIDAI Process
— by Hans Varghese Mathews — last modified Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AMThe accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals whose identifiers match might be termed duplicands. When very many people are to be identified success can be measured by the (low) proportion of duplicands. The Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.
Sean McDonald - Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
— by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 21, 2016 09:57 AMWe are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.
Comments by the Centre for Internet and Society on the Report of the Committee on Medium Term Path on Financial Inclusion
— by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Mar 01, 2016 01:53 PMApart from item-specific suggestions, CIS would like to make one broad comment with regard to the suggestions dealing with linking of Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts. Aadhaar is increasingly being used by the government in various departments as a means to prevent fraud, however there is a serious dearth of evidence to suggest that Aadhaar linkage actually prevents leakages in government schemes. The same argument would be applicable when Aadhaar numbers are sought to be utilized to prevent leakages in the banking sector.
‘A Good Day for the Internet Everywhere': India Bans Differential Data Pricing
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 25, 2016 01:21 AMIndia distinguished itself as a global leader on network neutrality on February 8, when regulators officially banned “differential pricing”, a process through which telecommunications service providers could or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services offered based on content.
Net Neutrality Advocates Rejoice As TRAI Bans Differential Pricing
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Feb 23, 2016 02:10 AMIndia would not see any more Free Basics advertisements on billboards with images of farmers and common people explaining how much they benefited from this Facebook project.
World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Feb 17, 2016 05:03 PMThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) had published a book in 2014 that examines free speech, expression and media development. The chapter contains a Foreword by Irina Bokova, Director General, UNESCO. Pranesh Prakash contributed to Independence: Introduction - Global Media Chapter. The book was edited by Courtney C. Radsch.
Internet Freedom
— by Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda — last modified Feb 15, 2016 02:51 AMThe modern medium of the web is an open-sourced, democratic world in which equality is an ideal, which is why what is most important is Internet freedom.
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