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Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
In the past few years, social networking sites have come to play a central role in intermediating the public’s access to and deliberation of information critical to a thriving democracy. In stark contrast to early utopian visions which imagined that the internet would create a more informed public, facilitate citizen-led engagement, and democratize media, what we see now is the growing association of social media platforms with political polarization and the entrenchment of racism, homophobia, and xenophobia.
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Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media: by Amber Sinha — published May 31, 2021 — filed under: Internet Governance
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Amber Sinha and Pooja Saxena - The Fundamental Right to Privacy: A Visual Guide: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 16, 2018 — last modified Apr 18, 2018 05:44 AM
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The Fundamental Right to Privacy - A Visual Guide: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 16, 2018 — filed under: Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Data Governance, Data Protection
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. This visual guide to the story of privacy law in India and the recent judgement of the Puttaswamy v. Union of India case is developed by Amber Sinha (research and content) and Pooja Saxena (design and conceptualisation).
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A Series of Op-eds on Data Protection: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 19, 2018 — filed under: Data Governance, Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
I wrote a short series of three op-eds for Asia Times this week.
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The Appropriate Use of Digital Identity: by Amber Sinha — published Aug 08, 2019 — last modified Aug 08, 2019 10:24 AM — filed under: Digital ID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Appropriate Use of Digital ID, Digital Identity
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Programme Officer - Privacy: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 15, 2019 — last modified Apr 15, 2019 06:53 AM — filed under: Jobs, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the position of Programme Officer, to undertake public policy research on privacy and related themes. For this position, we will hire one full time researcher, to be based in the Delhi office of CIS, for the duration of one year.
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Should Aadhaar be mandatory?: by Amber Sinha — published Dec 18, 2017 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
This week, a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will adjudicate on limited questions of stay orders in the Aadhaar case. After numerous attempts by the petitioners in the Aadhaar case, the court has agreed to hear this matter, just shy of the looming deadline of December 31 for the linking of Aadhaar numbers to avail government services and benefits.
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India’s Data Protection Regime Must Be Built Through an Inclusive and Truly Co-Regulatory Approach: by Amber Sinha — published Dec 01, 2017 — last modified Jan 01, 2018 04:18 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
We must move India past its existing consultative processes for rule-making, which often prompts stakeholders to take adversarial and extremely one-sided positions.
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CIS Submission to the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India: by Amber Sinha — published Feb 05, 2018 — last modified Apr 18, 2018 04:39 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet and Society, India (“CIS”) on the ‘White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India’ (“White Paper”) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The White paper was drafted by a Committee of Expert (“Committee”) constituted by the Ministry. CIS has conducted research on the issues of privacy, data protection and data security since 2010 and is thankful for the opportunity to put forth its views. The submission was made on January 31, 2018.
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