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Beyond the Searchlight: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 23, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Should we be wary of Google’s all-pervasiveness?
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An Interview with Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch Data Protection Authority and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party: by Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 25, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society interviewed Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch Data Protection Authority and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party.
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What India can Learn from the Snowden Revelations: by Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 25, 2013 — last modified Oct 25, 2013 07:29 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Big Brother is watching, across cyberspace and international borders. Meanwhile, the Indian government has few safeguards in theory and fewer in practice. There’s no telling how prevalent or extensive Indian surveillance really is.
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Bouquets & brickbats for Google's new privacy policy: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 25, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Google's recent privacy policy change that allows the internet search company to use names, photographs and endorsements by its users in online advertisements is getting mixed reviews in India - advertisers love it, and activists love to hate it.
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Spy Files 3: WikiLeaks Sheds More Light On The Global Surveillance Industry: by Maria Xynou — published Oct 25, 2013 — last modified Nov 14, 2013 04:21 PM — filed under: Privacy, Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS, Featured, Homepage
In this article, Maria Xynou looks at WikiLeaks' latest Spy Files and examines the legality of India's surveillance technologies, as well as their potential connection with India's Central Monitoring System (CMS) and implications on human rights.
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Saving privacy as we knew it: by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 29, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Long overdue protection law still on the back-burner; meanwhile, depts put more of one's personal details online.
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Why 'Facebook' is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You: by Maria Xynou — published Nov 19, 2013 — last modified Nov 23, 2013 08:38 AM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this article, Maria Xynou looks at state and corporate surveillance in India and analyzes why our "choice" to hand over our personal data can potentially be more harmful than traditional, top-down, state surveillance. Read this article and perhaps reconsider your "choice" to use social networking sites, such as Facebook.
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CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.: by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 30, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
The United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
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Open Secrets: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 01, 2013 — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:21 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
We need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
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Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1): by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Privacy
In this series of blog posts, Pranesh Prakash looks at a brief history of misuse of surveillance powers in India. He notes that the government's surveillance powers have been freqently misused, very often without any kind of judicial or political redressal. This, he argues, should lead us as concerned citizens to demand a scaling down of the government's surveillance powers and pass laws to put it place more robust oversight mechanisms.
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