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Central Monitoring System to make government privy to phone calls, text messages and social media conversations: by Prasad Krishna — published May 09, 2013 — last modified Jun 05, 2013 09:17 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The government last month quietly began rolling out a project that gives it access to everything that happens over India's telecommunications network—online activities, phone calls, text messages and even social media conversations. Called the Central Monitoring System, it will be the single window from where government arms such as the National Investigation Agency or the tax authorities will be able to monitor every byte of communication.
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Parties give short shrift to privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 12, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 05:54 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Both the Congress and BJP vision documents disappoint, but the real surprise is the CPI-M document that deals with cyber issues in a substantial manner.
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In India, Biometric Data Storage Sparks Demands for Privacy Laws: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
In India, calls for strict privacy laws are growing after this week's passage of a measure that allows federal agencies access to biometric data of the nation's citizens, the world's largest such repository.
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February 2014 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2014 — last modified Apr 07, 2014 07:27 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) welcomes you to the second issue of its newsletter (February) for the year 2014:
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Remove misinformation, but be transparent please!: by Torsha Sarkar — published Jun 29, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen an extensive proliferation of misinformation and misleading information on the internet - which in turn has highlighted a heightened need for online intermediaries to promptly and effectively deploy its content removal mechanisms. This blogpost examines how this necessity may affect the best practices of transparency reporting and obligations of accountability that these online intermediaries owe to their users, and formulates recommendations to allow preservation of information regarding Covid-19 related content removal, for future research.
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Your cyber space is a hackers paradise: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 06, 2011 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 12:58 AM
It Looks like hackers are having a ball targeting all kinds of websites — gaming, news, government, personal email and even those run by terror networks, writes Shayan Ghosh. The article was published in Mail Today on June 6, 2011.
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Linking Aadhaar with social media or ending encryption is counterproductive: by Sunil Abraham — published Aug 28, 2019 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Should Aadhaar be used as KYC for social media accounts? We have recently seen a debate on this question with even the courts hearing arguments in favour and against such a move.
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New privacy Bill more refined & has wider ambit, say experts: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 03, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
But creates wide exceptions for government agencies.
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Privacy in the Age of Big Data: by Amber Sinha — published Apr 11, 2017 — filed under: Internet Governance, Aadhaar, Big Data, Privacy
Personal data is freely accessible, shared and even sold, and those to whom this information belongs have little control over its flow.
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New Bill to decide on individual’s right to privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 07, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
A group of experts would identify issues relating to privacy and prepare a report to facilitate authoring the Privacy Bill. Vishwajoy Mukherjee's article was published in Tehelka on 6 February 2012.
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