Centre for Internet and Society

Lawrence Liang

praskrishna — 2012-10-04T13:22:21Z

Lawrence Liang

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Lawrence Liang

praskrishna — 2012-12-14T05:31:31Z

Lawrence Liang

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Lawrence Liang

praskrishna — 2014-10-23T05:41:37Z

Lawrence Liang is a graduate of the National Law School. He subsequently pursued his Masters degree in Law and Development at Warwick, on a Chevening Scholarship. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture, the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. A keen follower of the open source movement in software, Lawrence has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain. He has written extensively on these issues and is the author of The Public is Watching: Sex, Laws and Videotape and A Guide to Open Content Licenses. Lawrence has taught at NLS, the Asian College of Journalism, Nalsar, etc., and is currently working on a Ph.D. on the idea of cinematic justice at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Lawrence Liang

praskrishna — 2013-05-10T17:53:29Z

Lawrence Liang

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Lawrence

praskrishna — 2013-05-13T13:20:05Z

Lawrence

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Law yet to catch up with tech-enabled peeping toms

praskrishna — 2012-11-08T08:06:07Z

Devices that give sharp images are the order of the day. But this clarity is lacking when it comes to regulating use of cameras and camera phones in public places, say policy makers.

The article by Sandhya Soman & Pratiksha Ramkumar was published in the Times of India on November 7, 2012.

If there is one thing that sends more clients harried by blackmailers to detectives like A M Malathy of Malathy Detective Agency, it is the pervasive presence of the camera, most often inside modest cell phones. "One girl had to leave a town as her ex-boyfriend uploaded her photo on the internet and referred to her as a call girl. We got the web page removed," says Malathy.

But tracing culprits is difficult if they are strangers on the road. Absence of a privacy law makes it difficult for police to book culprits. "If someone photographs a woman on a bus, we can ask the person to delete it. But we can't book the person s there is no law," says Jegabar Sali, assistant commissioner, cyber crime cell.

The Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 talks of punishment only in cases where a person's private areas have been photographed. However, things are looking up with the government trying to draw up the Right to Privacy Bill.

"The problems posed by digital technology are complex and we need to define what these new crimes are," says Rajeev Chandrasekhar, independent Member of Parliament, who introduced the Right to Privacy Bill,2010 in Parliament. "I did it because I got representations from parents and women about how MMS clips were being used to blackmail them," says Chandrasekhar.

There have been attempts at legislation earlier. The Mobile Camera Phone Users (Code of Conduct) Bill, 2006 attempted to regulate the use of camera phones in public places. It proposed that manufactures build camera phones that flash a light or emit a 'click' sound, and that users should get consent of the person being photographed.

"The sound and light are for informing people that they are being filmed," says Sunil Abraham, executive director, Centre for Internet and Society, a Bangalore-based organisation that was part of the committee. These provisions are part of South Korea's privacy law, which sought to bring down cases of technology-enabled 'upskirt' photography, where photos of women were taken without their permission, he says.

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Law Enforcement, National Security, and Privacy

praskrishna — 2014-02-28T05:04:32Z

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Law Economics Policy Conference

praskrishna — 2016-09-22T01:41:51Z

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Law and Pornography Word File

praskrishna — 2010-12-22T11:10:40Z

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Law and Economy Policy Conference 2016 (LEPC - 2016)

praskrishna — 2016-09-22T01:48:08Z

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) is organising India’s first “Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC-2016)”. The aim is to bring together legal, economic and policy thinkers to consider policy issues in a holistic manner.

The conference is guided by an eminent Steering Committee constituting Mr. Bahram Vakil (Senior Partner, AZB & Partners), Justice B.N. Srikrishna (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India), Prof. Rathin Roy (Director, NIPFP), Mr. Somasekhar Sundaresan (Advocate, Independent Legal Counsel), Mr. Rajeev Kapoor (Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration), Ms. Sunanda Nair (Director, INET) and Prof. Ajay Shah (Professor, NIPFP).

The conference will be organized from September 28 to 30, 2016 at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The draft programme is available here. Keynote Speech will be given by Shri Arun Jaitley - Honourable Minister of Finance, Government of India. Sunil Abraham will be serving as a discussant on the "Towards a privacy framework for India" session of this conference.

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Law & Pornography

praskrishna — 2010-12-22T11:11:51Z

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Lavanya

praskrishna — 2013-05-08T16:43:27Z

Lavanya

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Lavanian

praskrishna — 2012-07-10T09:48:15Z

Lavanian

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Laungani

praskrishna — 2012-02-06T03:59:28Z

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Launch of the Open Data Lab Jakarta

praskrishna — 2015-02-07T13:05:19Z

World Wide Fund's first Open Data Lab was launched on February 5, 2015. It was launched at the Istana Ballroom, Sari Pan Pacific Hotel. Sunil Abraham was a speaker.

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