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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.
Read more →CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India
- March 15, 2023
Results from a nation-wide empirical study on web censorship
Read more →Civil Society’s second opinion on a UHI prescription
- February 15, 2023
On January 13, Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas from CIS participated in an online collaboration organised by Internet Freedom Foundation for a joint submission to the Consultation Paper on Operationalising Unified Health Interface (UHI) in India released by the National Health Authority.
Read more →Comments to the proposed amendments to The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
- February 07, 2023
This note presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India, on the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“proposed amendments”). We thank Isha Suri for her review of this submission.
Read more →The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022
- January 20, 2023
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) published its comments and recommendations to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, on December 17, 2022.
Read more →Big Tech’s privacy promise to consumers could be good news — and also bad news
- January 18, 2023
Rajat Kathuria, Isha Suri write: Its use as a tool for market development must balance consumer protection, innovation, and competition.
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