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Blog Entry Privacy and Banking: Do Indian Banking Standards Provide Enough Privacy Protection?
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:07 AM
Banking is one of the most risky sectors as far as privacy is concerned due to the highly sensitive and personal nature of information which is often exchanged, recorded and retained. Although India has RBI guidelines and legislations to protect data, this blog post looks at the extent of those protections, and what are the areas that still need to be addressed.
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Blog Entry C.I.S Responds to Privacy Approach Paper
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:08 AM
A group of officers was created to develop a framework for a privacy legislation that would balance the need for privacy protection, security, sectoral interests, and respond to the domain legislation on the subject. Shri Rahul Matthan of Tri Legal Services prepared an approach paper for the legal framework for a proposed legislation on privacy. The approach paper is now being circulated for seeking opinions of the group of officers and is also being placed on the website of the Department of Personnel and Training for seeking public views on the subject. The Privacy India team at C.I.S responded to the approach paper and has called for the need for a more detailed study of statutory enforcement models and mechanisms in the creation of a privacy legislation.
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Blog Entry American Bar Association Online Privacy Conference: A Report
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:08 AM — filed under:
On 10 November 2010, I attended an American Bar Association online conference on 'Regulating Privacy Across Borders in the Digital Age: An Emerging Global Consensus or Vive la Difference'. The panalists addressed many important global privacy challenges and spoke about the changes the EU directive is looking to take.
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Blog Entry Privacy, Free/Open Source, and the Cloud
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:50 AM — filed under: , ,
A look into the questions that arise in concern to privacy and cloud computing, and how open source plays into the picture.
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Blog Entry Privacy Concerns in Whole Body Imaging: A Few Questions
by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 17, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM — filed under:
Security versus Privacy...it is a question that the world is facing today when it comes to using the Whole Body Imaging technology to screen a traveller visually in airports and other places. By giving real life examples from different parts of the world Elonnai Hickok points out that even if the Government of India eventually decides to advocate the tight security measures with some restrictions then such measures need to balanced against concerns raised for personal freedom. She further argues that privacy is not just data protection but something which must be viewed holistically and contextually when assessing new policies.
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Blog Entry Presentation of the UID project by Ashok Dalwai – A Report
by Elonnai Hickok — published Sep 08, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:09 AM — filed under:
On Tuesday, 7 September 2010, Ashok Dalwai, the Deputy Director General of the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI), gave a lecture at the Indian Institute for Science in Bangalore. Representing the UID Authority, his presentation explained the vision of the project and focused on the challenges involved in demographic and biometric identification, the technology adopted, and the enrolment process. Elonnai Hickok gives a report of his presentation in this blog post.
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Blog Entry Feedback to the NIA Bill
by Elonnai Hickok — published Jul 30, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:14 AM — filed under: ,
Malavika Jayaram and Elonnai Hickok introduce the formal submission of CIS to the proposed National Identification Authority of India (NIA) Bill, 2010, which would give every resident a unique identity. The submissions contain the detailed comments on the draft bill and the high level summary of concerns with the NIA Bill submitted to the UIDAI on 13 July, 2010.
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