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Privacy, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice: The Common Law Recognition of Homosexuality
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 11:56 AMPrivacy, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice: The Common Law Recognition of Homosexuality
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 12:20 PMIn the last few decades, all major common law jurisdictions have decriminalised non-procreative sex – oral and anal sex (sodomy) – to allow private, consensual, and non-commercial homosexual intercourse.
Net Neutrality and the Law of Common Carriage
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 11:06 AMNet Neutrality and the Law of Common Carriage
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 11:09 AMNet neutrality makes strange bedfellows. It links the truck operators that dominate India’s highways, such as those that carry vegetables from rural markets to cities, and Internet service providers which perform a more technologically advanced task.
Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 10:09 AMFree Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation
— by Bhairav Acharya — last modified Aug 23, 2015 10:12 AMThis note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Internet Policy Observatory of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Security: Privacy, Transparency and Technology
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 19, 2015 02:24 AMSecurity: Privacy, Transparency and Technology
— by Sunil Abraham — last modified Sep 15, 2015 10:53 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been involved in privacy and data protection research for the last five years. It has participated as a member of the Justice A.P. Shah Committee, which has influenced the draft Privacy Bill being authored by the Department of Personnel and Training. It has organised 11 multistakeholder roundtables across India over the last two years to discuss a shadow Privacy Bill drafted by CIS with the participation of privacy commissioners and data protection authorities from Europe and Canada.
Right to Privacy in Peril
— by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Aug 13, 2015 03:32 PMIt seems to have become quite a fad, especially amongst journalists, to use this headline and claim that the right to privacy which we consider so inherent to our being, is under attack. However, when I use this heading in this piece I am not referring to the rampant illegal surveillance being done by the government, or the widely reported recent raids on consenting (unmarried) adults who were staying in hotel rooms in Mumbai. I am talking about the fact that the Supreme Court of India has deemed it fit to refer the question of the very existence of a fundamental right to privacy to a Constitution Bench to finally decide the matter, and define the contours of such right if it does exist.
Big Data and the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011
— by Elonnai Hickok — last modified Aug 11, 2015 07:01 AMExperts and regulators across jurisdictions are examining the impact of Big Data practices on traditional data protection standards and principles. This will be a useful and pertinent exercise for India to undertake as the government and the private and public sectors begin to incorporate and rely on the use of Big Data in decision making processes and organizational operations.This blog provides an initial evaluation of how Big Data could impact India's current data protection standards.
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