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Announcement of a Three-Region Research Alliance on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
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Amber Sinha
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May 13, 2019
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May 13, 2019 09:06 AM
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Digital ID,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Featured,
Digital Identity,
Homepage
Omidyar Network has recently announced its decision to invest in establishment of a three-region research alliance — to be co-led by the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) , Kenya, and the CIS, India — on the Appropriate Use of Digital Identity. As part of this Alliance, we at the CIS will look at the policy objectives of digital identity projects, how technological policy choices can be thought through to meet the objectives, and how legitimate uses of a digital identity framework may be evaluated.
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Rankathon on Digital Rights (Delhi, January 08)
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Amber Sinha
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Dec 29, 2016
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last modified
Dec 29, 2016 07:10 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Digital Rights
Please join us on Sunday, January 08, at the CIS office in Hauz Khas, Delhi, for a rankathon to visualise, and contribute to the findings of the Ranking Digital Rights study, and critique the underlying methodology. The event will begin at 10:00 in the morning and participants can focus on one or more of three kinds of tasks: 1) visualising the CIS and Ranking Digital Rights data, 2) evaluating additional companies using the RDR methodology, and 3) evaluating the RDR methodology and its suitability for independent use.
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Social Media Monitoring
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Amber Sinha
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Jan 13, 2017
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Jan 16, 2017 02:23 PM
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Social Media,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance
We see a trend of social media and communication monitoring and surveillance initiatives in India which have the potential to create a chilling effect on free speech online and raises question about the privacy of individuals. In this paper, Amber Sinha looks at social media monitoring as a tool for surveillance, the current state of social media surveillance in India, and evaluate how the existing regulatory framework in India may deal with such practices in future.
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Privacy after Big Data - Workshop Report
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Amber Sinha
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Jan 27, 2017
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Jan 27, 2017 01:09 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Sarai programme, CSDS, organised a workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?' on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.
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Deep Packet Inspection: How it Works and its Impact on Privacy
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Amber Sinha
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Dec 16, 2016
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
In the last few years, there has been extensive debate and discussion around network neutrality in India. The online campaign in favor of Network Neutrality was led by Savetheinternet.in in India. The campaign was a spectacular success and facilitated sending over a million emails supporting the cause of network neutrality, eventually leading to ban on differential pricing. Following in the footsteps of the Shreya Singhal judgement, the fact that the issue of net neutrality has managed to attract wide public attention is an encouraging sign for a free and open Internet in India. Since the debate has been focused largely on zero rating, other kinds of network practices impacting network neutrality have yet to be comprehensively explored in the Indian context, nor their impact on other values. In this article, the author focuses on network management, in general, and deep packet inspection, in particular and how it impacts the privacy of users.
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Discussion on Ranking Digital Rights in India (Delhi, January 07)
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Amber Sinha
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Dec 29, 2016
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last modified
Dec 29, 2016 07:07 AM
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Privacy,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Ranking Digital Rights,
Digital Rights
Towards developing an understanding of how Indian ICT companies are recognising and upholding digital rights of their users, and to raise public awareness about the same, the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), with the support of Privacy International, has studied 8 Indian ICT companies, using the same methodology as the 2015 Corporate Accountability Index, to gain greater insight into company practices and initiate public dialogues. Please join us on Saturday, January 07, at the India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi, for a presentation of our findings followed by an open structured discussion on the methodology and implications of the study.
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New Media, personalisation and the role of algorithms
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 02, 2017
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last modified
Jan 16, 2017 07:20 AM
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filed under:
Human Rights,
Big Data,
Internet Governance,
Machine Learning,
Algorithms,
New Media
In his much acclaimed book, The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser explains how personalisation of services on the web works and laments that they are creating individual bubbles for each user, which run counter to the idea of the Internet as an inherently open place. While Pariser’s book looks at the practices of various large companies providing online services, he briefly touches upon the role of new media such as search engines and social media portals in new curation. Building upon Pariser’s unexplored argument, this article looks at the impact of algorithmic decision-making and Big Data in the context of news reporting and curation.
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India's Data Protection Framework Will Need to Treat Privacy as a Social and Not Just an Individual Good
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Amber Sinha
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May 18, 2018
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
The idea that technological innovations may compete with privacy of individuals assumes that there is social and/or economic good in allowing unrestricted access to data. However, it must be remembered that data is potentially a toxic asset, if it is not collected, processed, secured and shared in the appropriate way.
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Comments on Information Technology (Security of Prepaid Payment Instruments) Rules, 2017
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Amber Sinha
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Mar 23, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Information Technology
The Centre for Internet and Society submitted comments on the Information Technology (Security of Prepaid Payment Instruments) Rules, 2017. The comments were prepared by Udbhav Tiwari, Pranesh Prakash, Abhay Rana, Amber Sinha and Sunil Abraham.
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The Fundamental Right to Privacy: Part III SCOPE
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by
Amber Sinha
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Oct 02, 2017
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
This is the third paper in a series on the recent judgment on the right to privacy by the nine judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court in a reference matter in Puttaswamy and others v. Union of India. The first two papers on the Sources and Structure of the constitutional right to privacy are available here, and here, respectively. While the previous papers dealt with the sources in the Constitution and the interpretive tools used by the bench to locate the right to privacy as a constitutional right, as well as the structure of the right with its various dimensions, this paper will look at the judgment for guidance on principles to determine what the scope of the right of privacy may be.
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