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Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
— by Amrita Sengupta and Yesha Tshering Paul — last modified Apr 09, 2024 12:13 AMOn 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Apr 04, 2024 02:20 PMWe analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a role in intimate partner violence. We also evaluate the protection provided by antivirus tools in detecting such stalkerware apps and describe how we collected technical evidence to help improve the detection of these apps.
Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU
— by Swati Punia, Srishti Joshi, Siddharth Peter De Souza, Linnet Taylor, Jhalak M. Kakkar, Isha Suri, Arindrajit Basu, and Anushka Mittal — last modified Feb 20, 2024 12:30 AMThis policy paper is the result of a workshop organised jointly by the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Netherlands, the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi, India and the Centre for Internet & Society, India in January, 2023. The workshop brought together a number of academics, researchers, and industry representatives in Delhi to discuss a range of issues at the core of data governance theory and practice.
Information Disorders and their Regulation
— by Torsha Sarkar, Shruti Trikanad, and Anoushka Soni — last modified Jan 31, 2024 02:20 PMThe Indian media and digital sphere, perhaps a crude reflection of the socio-economic realities of the Indian political landscape, presents a unique and challenging setting for studying information disorders.
DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Jan 25, 2024 11:19 AMDigital Delivery and Data System for Farmer Income Support
— by Sameet Panda — last modified Oct 18, 2023 11:40 PMThis report, jointly published by the Centre for Internet & Society and Privacy International, highlights the digital systems deployed by the government to augment farmer income. It analyses the PM-Kisan and Kalia schemes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Blocking
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Sep 05, 2023 12:10 PMA new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
Deceptive Design in Voice Interfaces: Impact on Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Privacy
— by Saumyaa Naidu and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Aug 08, 2023 03:22 PMThis article was commissioned by the Pranava Institute, as part of their project titled Design Beyond Deception, supported by the University of Notre Dame - IBM's Tech Ethics Lab.” The article examines the design of voice interfaces (VI) to anticipate potential deceptive design patterns in VIs. It also presents design and regulatory recommendations to mitigate these practices.
Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and India
— by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Jul 10, 2023 04:36 PMThrough this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management policy.
CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors?
— by Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi — last modified Jul 04, 2023 09:39 AMRecent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
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