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Rethinking National Privacy Principles: Evaluating Principles for India's Proposed Data Protection Law
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Sep 11, 2017
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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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Right to be Forgotten: A Tale of Two Judgements
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Apr 07, 2017
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filed under:
Right to be Forgotten,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
In the last few months, there have been contrasting judgments from two Indian high courts, Karnataka and Gujarat, on matters relating to the right to be forgotten. The two high courts heard pleas on issues to do the right of individuals to have either personal information redacted from the text of judgments available online or removal of such judgment from publically available sources.
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Should Aadhaar be mandatory?
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Dec 18, 2017
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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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Should an Inability to Precisely Define Privacy Render It Untenable as a Right?
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Aug 04, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The judges may still be able to articulate the manner in which limits for a right to privacy may be arrived at, without explicitly specifying them.
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Social Media Monitoring
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 13, 2017
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last modified
Jan 16, 2017 02:23 PM
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filed under:
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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Submission to the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Feb 05, 2018
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last modified
Feb 05, 2018 01:39 PM
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filed under:
Data Governance,
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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Technical Appendix to 'Use of sentiment analysis by law enforcement: An analysis of scrutability for juridical purposes'
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by
Amber Sinha
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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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The Appropriate Use of Digital Identity
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Aug 08, 2019
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last modified
Aug 08, 2019 10:24 AM
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filed under:
Digital ID,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Appropriate Use of Digital ID,
Digital Identity
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The Fundamental Right to Privacy - A Visual Guide
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Feb 16, 2018
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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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The Fundamental Right to Privacy: An Analysis
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Sep 27, 2017
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last modified
Oct 04, 2017 11:19 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Last month’s judgment by the nine judge referral bench was an emphatic endorsement of the the constitutional right to privacy. In the course of a 547 page judgment, the bench affirmed the fundamental nature of the right to privacy reading it into the values of dignity and liberty. In the course of a few short papers, we will dissect the various aspects of the right to privacy as put forth by the nine judge constitutional bench in the Puttaswamy matter. The papers will focus on the sources, structure, scope, breadth, and future of privacy. Here are the first three papers, authored by Amber Sinha and edited by Elonnai Hickok.
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