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- Participation in the meeting of BIS LITD 17 — by Admin — last modified Mar 03, 2019 06:12 AM
- Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
- Over 30 organisations, industry bodies oppose proposal to ban vape content — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 03, 2019 05:49 AM
- More than 30 organisations and industry bodies, including Ficci, CII and the Cellular Operators Association of India, have written to the Electronics and IT Ministry (MeitY), urging it not to ban online content related to the Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).
- Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) Convening Design — by Admin — last modified Mar 01, 2019 01:08 AM
- Ambika Tandon attended a workshop organized by Association for Progressive Communications for grantees of the Feminist Internet Research Network as a panelist on a session on feminist research methods.. The workshop was held from 27 February to 1 March, in Malaysia. Represented from 8 organizations attended the workshop.
- OWASP Seasides Conference — by Admin — last modified Mar 07, 2019 11:53 PM
- Karan Saini attended the OWASP Seasides security conference held on February 27 and 28, 2019 at Cavelossim, Goa. The event was organized by OWASP Seasides.
- Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South Asia — by Admin — last modified Feb 27, 2019 01:52 AM
- Internet Democracy Project and Point of View co-organized a two-day Imagine a Feminist Internet event in Sri Lanka on 22011 and 22 February 2019. Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data Problem? Unpacking ‘Dataveillance’ in India' which was co-authored by herself and Aayush Rathi.
- Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops 2019 — by Subodh Kulkarni — last modified Mar 01, 2019 12:39 AM
- Maharashtra is a state which is rich in diversity in terms of language and culture seen in its various regions such as Konkan, Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Awareness needs to be created to make Wikimedia movement inclusive and diverse in these geographical regions as well as in their social strata.
- Comments on the Draft Second Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) — by Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Feb 25, 2019 04:48 PM
- Following consultations with data protection, civil society, industry and others, during the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) meeting from 29 November 2018 onwards, the Cybercrime Convention Committee has sought additional contributions regarding the provisional draft text for a Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (“Budapest Convention”).
- What I learned from going offline for 48 hours — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM
- A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
- Goa University students update ‘Goa’ Marathi articles on Wikipedia — by Admin — last modified Feb 22, 2019 02:27 AM
- Faculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.
- Resurrecting the marketplace of ideas — by Arindrajit Basu — last modified Feb 22, 2019 02:18 AM
- There is no ‘silver bullet’ for regulating content on the web. It requires a mix of legal and empirical analysis.
- Are RSS's fears about Tik Tok true? Here's what you should know — by Admin — last modified Feb 22, 2019 02:13 AM
- Swadeshi Jagran Manch has flagged security, business and social risks posed by Chinese apps such as TikTok. The RSS fears may not be totally unfounded.
- Webinar on counter-comments to the draft Intermediary Guidelines — by Admin — last modified Feb 22, 2019 01:51 AM
- CCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter organised a webinar on February 11 to discuss the comments submitted to the Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018, and counter-comments that were due by February 14.
- CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights — by Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Akriti Bopanna, Shweta Mohandas, Martyna Kalvaityte — last modified Feb 20, 2019 10:48 AM
- CIS responded to the call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights.
- Civil Liberties Groups Warn Proposed EU 'Terrorist Content' Rule a Threat to Democratic Values — by Admin — last modified Feb 19, 2019 12:49 AM
- Requiring filtering tools would be "a gamble with European Internet users' rights to privacy and data protection, freedom of expression and information, and non-discrimination and equality before the law."
- 2019 International Asia Conference — by Admin — last modified Feb 19, 2019 12:23 AM
- ITECHLAW organized the 2019 edition of International Asia Conference at JW Marriott hotel in Bangalore on January 31, 2019 and February 1, 2019. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Policy Making for the Emerging Tech in India".
- Project Loon — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 09, 2015 04:17 PM
- Billions of people could get online for the first time thanks to helium balloons that Google will soon send over many places cell towers don’t reach.
- Make our digital backyard safe — by Nilanjana Bhowmick — last modified Feb 18, 2019 02:37 PM
- India has been patting itself on the back for being at the forefront of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ driven by digitisation. Reports have gushed about the speed and scale of digitisation. But this speed and scale have come at a cost to our privacy.
- Even years later, Twitter doesn't delete your direct messages — by Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas — last modified Feb 18, 2019 02:17 PM
- When does “delete” really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you’re Twitter .
- Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops — by Saumyaa Naidu — last modified Feb 26, 2019 01:53 AM
- Centre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
- ‘Willing to participate, but need more time’: Twitter on parliamentary panel hearing — by Smriti Kak Ramachandran and Vidhi Choudhary — last modified Feb 15, 2019 02:29 AM
- Executives from social media firm Twitter’s US headquarters will not appear before a parliamentary panel that has summoned them on Monday over perceived bias towards right-wing handles on the micro-blogging platform.
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