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Sense and Censorship: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 31, 2012 — last modified Jan 31, 2012 06:15 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills, at the US House of Representatives and Senate, respectively, appear to enforce property rights, but are, in fact, trade bills. This article by Sunil Abraham was published in the Indian Express on 20 January 2012.
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Sense and censorship: by Sunil Abraham — published Mar 30, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:15 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Sunil Abraham examines Google's crusade against censorship in China in wake of the attacks on its servers in this article published in the Indian Express.
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Services like TwitterSeva aren’t the silver bullets they are made out to be: by Sunil Abraham — published Oct 06, 2016 — last modified Oct 06, 2016 04:31 PM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
TwitterSeva is great, but it should not be considered a sufficient replacement for proper e-governance systems. This is because there are several serious shortcomings with the TwitterSeva approach, and it is no wonder that enthusiastic police officers and bureaucrats are somewhat upset with the slow deployment of e-governance applications. They are also right in being frustrated with the lack of usability and scalability of existing applications that hold out the promise of adopting private sector platforms to serve citizens better.
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Shreya Singhal and 66A: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 11, 2015 — last modified Apr 19, 2015 08:09 AM — filed under: IT Act, Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Chilling Effect
Most software code has dependencies. Simple and reproducible methods exist for mapping and understanding the impact of these dependencies. Legal code also has dependencies --across court orders and within a single court order. And since court orders are not produced using a structured mark-up language, experts are required to understand the precedential value of a court order.
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Snooping Can Lead to Data Abuse: by Sunil Abraham — published Jun 09, 2011 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:39 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
THE NATGRID, aiming to link databases of 21 departments and ministries for better counter-terror measures, adopts blunt policy approach, subjecting every citizen to the same level of blanket surveillance, instead of a targeted approach that intelligently focuses on geographic or demographic areas that are currently important, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published by Mail Today on June 9, 2011.
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Software Patents: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 09:51 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") is not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office sometimes incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law.
Located in Openness / Publications
Spreading unhappiness equally around: by Sunil Abraham — published Jul 31, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The section of civil society opposed to Aadhaar is unhappy because the UIDAI and all other state agencies that wish to can process data non-consensually.
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Substantive Areas: by Sunil Abraham — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Dec 04, 2011 03:26 PM
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Sunil Abraham - Key Listener Speech at Wikimedia Summit 2019: by Sunil Abraham — published May 04, 2019 — last modified May 04, 2019 03:34 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Summit 2019 – formerly known as "Wikimedia Conference" or "Chapters Meeting" – took place on 29–31 March 2019 in Berlin. Sunil Abraham made a speech at the summit organized in Berlin.
Located in Openness
Surveillance Project: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 05, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Aadhaar project’s technological design and architecture is an unmitigated disaster and no amount of legal fixes in the Act will make it any better.
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