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Workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data' (Delhi, November 12)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Nov 02, 2016
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last modified
Nov 12, 2016 10:14 AM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
Digital Governance,
Privacy,
Data Revolution,
Surveillance,
Big Data,
Digital India,
Internet Governance,
Big Data for Development,
Digital Rights
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Sarai programme, CSDS, invite you to a workshop on 'Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?' on Saturday, November 12. This workshop aims to build a dialogue around some of the key government-led big data initiatives in India and elsewhere that are contributing significant new challenges and concerns to the ongoing debates on the right to privacy. It is an open event. Please register to participate.
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Internet Governance
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Events
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CIS Human DNA Profiling Bill 2015
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 02, 2015
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Live Chat: Aadhaar: An identity crisis?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 17, 2015
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 06:54 AM
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Aadhaar card is not compulsory for citizens and "no person should be denied any benefits or ‘suffer’ for not having the Aadhaar cards issued by Unique Identification Authority of India," the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Why experts are worried about Aadhaar-based authentication
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 07, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
As private companies are increasingly using Aadhaar data, is the privacy and security of personal data really at risk? What do those defending Aadhaar have to say?
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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CIS Comments and Recommendations to the Human DNA Profiling Bill, June 2015
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by
Elonnai Hickok, Vipul Kharbanda and Vanya Rakesh
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published
Aug 27, 2015
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last modified
Sep 02, 2015 05:09 PM
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filed under:
DNA Profiling,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted a clause-by-clause comments on the Human DNA Profiling Bill that was circulated by the Department of Biotechnology on June 9, 2015.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Dec 14, 2016
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last modified
Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM
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filed under:
Digital Payment,
Data Systems,
Researchers at Work,
UID,
Internet Governance,
Surveillance,
Big Data,
Aadhaar,
Welfare Governance,
Big Data for Development,
Digital ID
This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Jan 20, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Making Change,
Web Politics
This post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Fostering Strategic Convergence in US-India Tech Relations: 5G and Beyond
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by
Justin Sherman and Arindrajit Basu
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published
Jul 05, 2019
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filed under:
Telecom,
Artificial Intelligence
The 2019 G-20 summit underscores the importance of fostering strategic convergence in U.S.-India tech relations.
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Telecom
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Blog
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ICANN’s Documentary Information Disclosure Policy – I: DIDP Basics
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by
Vinayak Mithal
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published
Jul 01, 2014
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Accountability,
ICANN,
DIDP,
Transparency
In a series of blogposts, Vinayak Mithal analyses ICANN's reactive transparency mechanism, comparing it with freedom of information best practices. In this post, he describes the DIDP and its relevance for the Internet community.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Calling Out the BSA on Its BS
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 09, 2011
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last modified
Sep 14, 2011 06:16 PM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is trying to pull wool over government officials' eyes by equating software piracy with tax losses. Pranesh Prakash points out how that argument lacks cogency, and that tax losses would be better averted if BSA's constituent companies just decided to pay full taxes in India.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
