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ISO/IEC/ JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups Meeting, Jaipur

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Dec 21, 2015 02:38 AM
December 21, 2015

I attended this event held from October 26 to 30, 2015 in Jaipur.

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Smart Cities in India: An Overview

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jan 11, 2016 01:30 AM
December 21, 2015

The Government of India is in the process of developing 100 smart cities in India which it sees as the key to the country's economic and social growth. This blog post gives an overview of the Smart Cities project currently underway in India. The smart cities mission in India is at a nascent stage and an evolving area for research. The Centre for Internet and Society will continue work in this area.

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CIS's Position on Net Neutrality

by Sunil Abraham — last modified Dec 09, 2015 01:06 PM

As researchers committed to the principle of pluralism we rarely produce institutional positions. This is also because we tend to update our positions based on research outputs. But the lack of clarity around our position on network neutrality has led some stakeholders to believe that we are advocating for forbearance. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Please see below for the current articulation of our common institutional position.

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UID Research

UID Research

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:59 AM
December 03, 2015

The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.

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Security Research

Security Research

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:55 AM
December 03, 2015

The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.

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Sectoral Privacy Research

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:46 AM
December 02, 2015

The Centre for Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy in India since the year 2010, with special focus on the following issues.

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Privacy Policy Research

Privacy Policy Research

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jan 03, 2016 09:40 AM
December 02, 2015

The Centre Internet and Society, India has been researching privacy policy in India since the year 2010 with the following objectives.

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DNA Research

DNA Research

by Vanya Rakesh — last modified Jul 21, 2016 11:02 AM
December 02, 2015

In 2006, the Department of Biotechnology drafted the Human DNA Profiling Bill. In 2012 a revised Bill was released and a group of Experts was constituted to finalize the Bill. In 2014, another version was released, the approval of which is pending before the Parliament. This legislation will allow the government of India to Create a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board for the purposes of forensic research and analysis. Here is a collection of our research on privacy and security concerns related to the Bill.

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