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Facial Recognition Technology in India
— by Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha — last modified Sep 02, 2021 04:21 PMThe Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology. Authors, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha, examine technological tools such as CCTV and FRT which are increasingly being deployed by the government.
Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19
— by Amber Sinha, Pallavi Bedi and Aman Nair — last modified Aug 10, 2021 03:34 PMThe Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the limitations of the government’s vaccination platform Co-WIN need to be analysed.
Finding Needles in Haystacks - Discussing the Role of Automated Filtering in the New Indian Intermediary Liability Rules
— by Shweta Mohandas and Torsha Sarkar — last modified Aug 03, 2021 07:28 AMOn the 25th of February this year The Government of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The new Rules broaden the scope of which entities can be considered as intermediaries to now include curated-content platforms (Netflix) as well as digital news publications. This blogpost analyzes the rule on automated filtering, in the context of the growing use of automated content moderation.
Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine Certificates
— by Divyank Katira — last modified Aug 03, 2021 05:13 AMWe examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
Comments on proposed amendments to the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020
— by Vipul Kharbanda, Rajat Misra, Arindrajit Basu and Aman Nair — last modified Jul 27, 2021 02:45 PMCIS Seminar Series: Information Disorder
— by Aman Nair — last modified Aug 11, 2021 11:17 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South.
Health IDs: Voluntary or Mandatory?
— by Pallavi Bedi — last modified Jul 22, 2021 01:29 PMOn August 15, 2020, the prime minister launched the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) with the objective of improving and streamlining the Indian healthcare system. In December 2020, the Central Government, notified the National Digital Health Mission: Health Data Management Policy (Health Data Policy) seeking to create a digital health ecosystem under the NDHM. A core pillar of the Health Data Policy is to create a unique health identity (UHID) for every Indian citizen.
Media Market Risk Ratings: India
— by Torsha Sarkar, Pranav M Bidare, and Gurshabad Grover — last modified Jan 25, 2022 01:29 PMThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with a neutral assessment of news sites that they can utilise to defund disinformation.
The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End Encryption
— by Gurshabad Grover, Tanaya Rajwade and Divyank Katira — last modified Jul 12, 2021 08:18 AMA legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
Interoperability and Portability as a Lever to Enhance User Choice and Privacy in Messaging Platforms
— by Kamesh Shekar — last modified Jul 06, 2021 11:37 AMDocument Actions
