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Regulating Sexist Online Harassment: A Model of Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship: by Amber Sinha — published Mar 11, 2021
Amber Sinha wrote a paper on regulating sexist online harassment, and how online harassment serves as a form of censorship, for the “Recognize, Resist, Remedy: Addressing Gender-Based Hate Speech in the Online Public Sphere” project, a collaborative project between IT for Change, India and InternetLab, Brazil.
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Rethinking National Privacy Principles: Evaluating Principles for India's Proposed Data Protection Law: by Amber Sinha — published Sep 11, 2017 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
This report is intended to be the first part in a series of white papers that CIS will publish which seeks to contribute to the discussions around the enactment of a privacy legislation in India. In subsequent pieces we will focus on subjects such as regulatory framework to implement, supervise and enforce privacy principles, and principles to regulate surveillance in India under a privacy law.
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Data for the Benefit of People: by Amber Sinha — published Dec 01, 2018
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Technical Appendix to 'Use of sentiment analysis by law enforcement: An analysis of scrutability for juridical purposes': by Amber Sinha — published May 03, 2020
This file contains the technical appendix to the paper titled 'Use of sentiment analysis by law enforcement: An analysis of scrutability for juridical purposes' by Dr. Hans Varghese Mathews and Amber Sinha
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Unpacking Data Protection Law: A Visual Representation: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 15, 2018 — last modified Feb 15, 2018 01:22 PM — filed under: Data Governance, Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
This visual explainer unpacking data protection law was developed by Amber Sinha (research) and Pooja Saxena (design), and published as part of the Data Privacy Week celebrations on the Privacy International blog. Join the conversation on Twitter using #dataprivacyweek.
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CIS Submission to the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 06, 2018
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Programme Officer - Digital Identity: by Amber Sinha — published Mar 29, 2019 — filed under: Jobs, Digital ID
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to be associated with a two year long research project on digital identity. We may hire up to three Programme Officers as part of this project. The position is full time and will be based in the Delhi office of CIS.
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CIS Response to Draft E-Commerce Policy: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 01, 2019 — last modified Apr 26, 2019 06:40 AM — filed under: E-Commerce, Featured, Homepage, Internet Governance
CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion on the draft national e-commerce policy. This response was authored by Amber Sinha, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda.
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Data Protection Submission: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 18, 2018
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Regulating Sexist Online Harassment: A Model of Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
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