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Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India
- April 06, 2024
On 14th and 15th March 2024, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) collaborated with Point of View (POV) to organise a consultation in Mumbai to explore the phenomenon of gendered information disorder in India, spanning various aspects from healthcare and sexuality to financial literacy, and the role of digital mediums, social media platforms and AI in exacerbating these issues.
Read more →India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection
- April 04, 2024
We analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a role in intimate partner violence. We also evaluate the protection provided by antivirus tools in detecting such stalkerware apps and describe how we collected technical evidence to help improve the detection of these apps.
Read more →Reconfiguring Data Governance: Insights from India and the EU
- February 17, 2024
This policy paper is the result of a workshop organised jointly by the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society, Netherlands, the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi, India and the Centre for Internet & Society, India in January, 2023. The workshop brought together a number of academics, researchers, and industry representatives in Delhi to discuss a range of issues at the core of data governance theory and practice.
Read more →Information Disorders and their Regulation
- January 31, 2024
The Indian media and digital sphere, perhaps a crude reflection of the socio-economic realities of the Indian political landscape, presents a unique and challenging setting for studying information disorders.
Read more →DoT’s order to trace server IP addresses will lead to unintended censorship
- January 25, 2024
Digital Delivery and Data System for Farmer Income Support
- October 18, 2023
This report, jointly published by the Centre for Internet & Society and Privacy International, highlights the digital systems deployed by the government to augment farmer income. It analyses the PM-Kisan and Kalia schemes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
Read more →Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Blocking
- September 05, 2023
A new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
Read more →Deceptive Design in Voice Interfaces: Impact on Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Privacy
- August 08, 2023
This article was commissioned by the Pranava Institute, as part of their project titled Design Beyond Deception, supported by the University of Notre Dame - IBM's Tech Ethics Lab.” The article examines the design of voice interfaces (VI) to anticipate potential deceptive design patterns in VIs. It also presents design and regulatory recommendations to mitigate these practices.
Read more →Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and India
- July 10, 2023
Through this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management policy.
Read more →CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors?
- July 04, 2023
Recent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
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