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Facebook Privacy Design: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 04, 2018 04:19 PM
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Facebook Resistance: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Feb 21, 2012 04:34 AM
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Facebook Resistance Article: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 24, 2011 08:58 AM — filed under: Workshop
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Facebook Resistance Workshop at CIS, Bangalore: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 09, 2011 — last modified Oct 21, 2011 08:24 AM — filed under: Research
Facebook designing your online identity is like designing your rooms with furniture from the bazaar. The only individuality lies in your family pictures standing on the shelves. On Saturday, April 2, 2011, CIS is organising a workshop for people to learn on how to think beyond the rules and limitations of Facebook, to tweak and play around the features and design to generate useful, creative, and funny concepts and explore how this creative intervention can be turned into a real software developed by the Facebook Resistance.
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facebook talks: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2014 07:39 AM
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Facebook's Delicate Dance With Delhi On Censorship: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 03, 2012 — filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
At the end of last week, a hashtag briskly rose across India: #Emergency2012. It was a reference to the 21-month stint, beginning in the summer of 1975, when then PM Indira Gandhi determined democracy an inconvenience.
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Facebook, Google deny spying access: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 09, 2013 — last modified Jul 02, 2013 10:18 AM — filed under: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
The CEOs of Facebook and Google on Saturday categorically denied that the US National Security Agency had "direct access" to their company servers for snooping on Gmail and Facebook users. But both acknowledged that the companies complied with the 'lawful' requests made by the US government and shared user data with sleuths.
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Facebook, Google face censorship in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 09, 2012 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
Religious leaders in India are on a collision course with social media websites including Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Two Indian courts recently asked these American companies as well as 19 other websites to take down “anti-religious” material. They are now required to report their compliance by February. Betwa Sharma's blog post was published in SmartPlanet on 5 January 2012. Sunil Abraham has been quoted in it extensively.
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Facebook, Google tell India they won’t screen for derogatory content: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 07, 2011 — last modified Dec 07, 2011 05:25 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
In the world’s largest democracy, the government wants Internet sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Google to screen and remove offensive content about religious figures and political leaders as soon as they learn about it. But those companies now say they can’t help.
Facebook, my boyfriend is lousy: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 24, 2011 — last modified Jul 25, 2011 10:07 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
While a sizeable chunk of users do not mind living their life in public, oversharing can have nasty repercussions in real life. This article by Sahana Saran was published in the Bangalore Mirror on 24 July 2011.
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