Internet Governance Blog
Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 04, 2014 03:49 AMThis post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
Marco Civil da Internet: Brazil’s ‘Internet Constitution’
— by Geetha Hariharan — last modified Jun 19, 2014 10:38 AMOn March 25, 2014, Brazil's lower house of parliament passed bill no. 2126/2011, popularly known as Marco Civil da Internet. The Marco Civil is a charter of Internet user-rights and service provider responsibilities, committed to freedom of speech and expression, privacy, and accessibility and openness of the Internet. In this post, the author looks at the pros and cons of the bill.
Leaked Privacy Bill: 2014 vs. 2011
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Apr 01, 2014 10:52 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society has recently received a leaked version of the draft Privacy Bill 2014 that the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has drafted.
Intermediary Liability Resources
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Jul 03, 2014 06:45 AMWe bring you a list of intermediary resources as part of research on internet governance. This blog post will be updated on an ongoing basis.
The Age of Shame
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 04, 2014 04:05 AMThe ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where netizens half-jokingly, self-referentially, in a spirit of part-truth, part-exaggeration, often wonder on what the real reason is for the internet to exist.
CIS Statement at ICANN 49's Public Forum
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jun 04, 2014 05:31 AMThis was a statement made by Pranesh Prakash at the ICANN 49 meeting (on March 27, 2014), arguing that ICANN's bias towards the North America and Western Europe result in a lack of legitimacy, and hoping that the IANA transition process provides an opportunity to address this.
European Union Draft Report Admonishes Mass Surveillance, Calls for Stricter Data Protection and Privacy Laws
— by Divij Joshi — last modified Sep 30, 2014 08:52 AMEver since the release of the “Snowden files”, the secret documents evidencing the massive scale of surveillance undertaken by America’s National Security Agency and publically released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, surveillance in the digital age has come to the fore of the global debate on internet governance and privacy.
Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp Deal
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:59 AMPrivacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as a standalone app?
Net Neutrality and Privacy
— by Divij Joshi — last modified Mar 20, 2014 05:01 AMThe highly contentious and polarising debate on net-neutrality will have a large impact on shaping the future of the internet and ultimately on the users of the internet. One important issue which needs to be prioritized while debating the necessity or desirability of a legal regime which advocates net-neutrality is its implication on privacy.
NTIA to give up control of the Internet's root
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 18, 2014 06:21 PMOn Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and that this would happen by September 2015. Pranesh Prakash provides a brief response to that announcement.
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