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India Subject to NSA Dragnet Surveillance! No Longer a Hypothesis — It is Now Officially Confirmed: by Maria Xynou — published Jun 13, 2013 — last modified Nov 06, 2013 10:20 AM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
As of last week, it is officially confirmed that the metadata of everyone´s communications is under the NSA´s microscope. In fact, the leaked data shows that India is one of the countries which is under NSA surveillance the most!
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India To Introduce Virtual ID For Aadhaar To Strengthen Privacy: by Admin — published Jan 17, 2018 — last modified Jan 17, 2018 12:11 AM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The government will introduce a virtual identification number for Aadhaar to help strengthen privacy following several instances of data leaks.
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India Trilateral Forum: by Admin — published Mar 23, 2018 — last modified Apr 10, 2018 03:09 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "The Promise and Peril of Technology" at the 14th edition of India Trilateral Forum organized by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Observer Research Foundation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Sweden in Goa from March 22 - 23, 2018.
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India UK Legal Regulatory Approaches: by Admin — published Nov 14, 2017
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India's 'Big Brother': The Central Monitoring System (CMS): by Maria Xynou — published Apr 08, 2013 — last modified Dec 06, 2013 09:39 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
In this post, Maria Xynou looks at India´s Central Monitoring System (CMS) project and examines whether it can target individuals´ communications data, regardless of whether they are involved in illegal activity.
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India's Aadhaar with biometric details of its billion citizens is making experts uncomfortable: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 14, 2017 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
"Indians in general have yet to understand the meaning and essence of privacy," says Member of Parliament, Tathagata Satpathy.
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India's billion-member biometric database raises privacy fears: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 17, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
India's parliament is set to pass legislation that gives federal agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears the privacy of a billion people could be compromised.
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India's Biometric Identification Programs and Privacy Concerns: by Divij Joshi — published Mar 31, 2013 — last modified Jul 21, 2016 10:51 AM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
The invasiveness of individual identification coupled with the fallibility of managing big data which biometric identification presents poses a huge risk to individual privacy in India.
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India's Central Monitoring System (CMS): Something to Worry About?: by Maria Xynou — published Jan 30, 2014 — last modified Feb 22, 2014 01:50 PM — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS
In this article, Maria Xynou presents new information about India's controversial Central Monitoring System (CMS) based on official documents which were shared with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). Read this article and gain an insight on how the CMS actually works!
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India's Identity Crisis: by Malavika Jayaram — published Dec 31, 2013 — last modified Jan 09, 2014 07:56 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Malavika Jayaram's article was published in 2013 Internet Monitor Annual Report: Reflections on the Digital World, published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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