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Once Upon A Flash

by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:23 AM
November 04, 2011

It was a dark and stormy evening. A young man in a dark blue Adidas jacket, collar turned up, eyes under green-black shades, hopped off a motorbike, tucked his thumbs into the front pockets of his low-slung retro jeans and surreptitiously made his way through a road thronging with rush-hour traffic and irate pedestrians yelping on their cellphones. He skipped across death traps with skilled ease: leaping over potholes, jumping over halfdug trenches, avoiding the occasional pair of doggy jaws that longed to mate with his ankles, ignoring the bikers who were using the pavements as new lanes for driving towards a honking traffic jam bathed in an orange and red neon that made the road look like a piece of burnt toast with dollops of vicious jam on it.

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CIS Comments on the Draft National Policy on Electronics

by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Nov 01, 2011 12:05 AM

These were the comments submitted by CIS to the request for comments put out by the Department of Information Technology on its draft 'National Policy on Electronics'.

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India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy

India's Statement Proposing UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy

by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Oct 31, 2011 03:28 PM

This is the statement made by India at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in which its proposal for the UN Committee for Internet-Related Policy was presented.

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Analysis of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking

by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 02, 2011 09:26 AM

In this blog post, Pranesh Prakash briefly analyses the DIT's response to an RTI request on website blocking alongside the most recent edition of Google's Transparency Report, and what it tells us about the online censorship regime in India.

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Text of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking

by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Oct 28, 2011 02:37 PM
October 17, 2011
RTI,

CIS had filed a request under the Right to Information Act with the government, asking a number of questions relating to blocking of content under the IT Act. We have reproduced below the response we got from the government.

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Privacy & Sexual Minorities

by Danish Sheikh — last modified Sep 20, 2013 09:22 AM
October 21, 2011

Danish Sheikh examines the status of sexual minorities in the light of privacy framework in India. Culling out some real life examples based on various studies, media reports and judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Allahabad, the research brings to light the privacy violations being committed by both individuals as well as state authorities. The research concludes by saying that privacy doesn’t necessarily encompass a one-size-fits-all approach, and can raise as many questions as it answers.

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Sixth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Nairobi: A Summary

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 24, 2011 09:09 AM
October 24, 2011

The sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum was held from 27 to 30 September 2011 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Sunil Abraham participated in six workshops: Privacy, Security, and Access to Rights: A Technical and Policy Analyses, Use of Digital Technologies for Civic Engagement and Political Change: Lessons Learned and Way Forward, The Impact of Regulation: FOSS and Enterprise, Proprietary Influences in Free and Open Source Software: Lessons to Open and Universal Internet Standards, Access and Diversity of Broadband Internet Access and Putting Users First: How Can Privacy be Protected in Today’s Complex Mobile Ecosystem?

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SCOSTA and UID Comparison not Valid, says Finance Committee

by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Nov 22, 2011 04:37 PM
October 14, 2011

The Standing Committee on Finance Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat has responded to the suggestions offered by CIS on the National Identification Authority of India, Bill 2010 and has requested it to mail its views by 14 October 2011.

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Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique Identifiers

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 22, 2011 07:28 AM
October 12, 2011

Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh open letter, Hans attempts to characterize in an abstract way the replies that CIS managed to elicit and makes some elementary observations.

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Hack Night in CIS ― A Meeting of Java Script Hackers

by Tom Dane — last modified Oct 27, 2011 11:36 AM
October 27, 2011

CIS hosted a hack night in conjunction with the tech-event organizers HasGeek at its office on 24 September 2011. The event brought together local java script hackers on a common platform. Tom Dane and Kiran Jonnalagadda participated in the event.

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