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Net nanny meets muscular law
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Admin
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published
Oct 02, 2018
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance
India’s new human-trafficking bill could criminalise sex workers and curtail free speech.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Advocating for Openness: Nine Ways Civil Society Groups Have Mobilized to Defend Internet Freedom
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by
Admin
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published
Nov 26, 2017
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filed under:
Openness,
Accessibility
The debate over whether the Internet is a better tool for democratic empowerment or authoritarian control misconstrues the nature of the democratic challenges of the digital age.
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Accessibility
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News & Media
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Civil Liberties and the amended Information Technology Act, 2000
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by
Malavika Jayaram
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published
Aug 05, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:13 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance
This post examines certain limitations of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended in 2008). Malavika Jayaram points out the fact that when most countries of the world are adopting plain English instead of the conventional legal terminology for better understanding, India seems to be stuck in the old-fashioned method thereby, struggling to maintain a balance between clarity and flexibility in drafting its laws. The present Act, she says, is although an improvement over the old Act and seeks to address and improve on certain areas in the right direction but still comes up short in making necessary changes when it comes to fundamental rights and personal liberties. The new Act retains elements from the previous one making it an abnormal document and this could have been averted if there had been some attention to detail.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Internet Shutdowns
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 27, 2017
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Internet Governance
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Files
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Search and Seizure and the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age: A Comparison of US and India
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by
Divij Joshi
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published
May 31, 2014
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last modified
Jun 02, 2014 06:45 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The development of information technology has transformed the way in which individuals make everyday transactions and communicate with the world around us. These interactions and transactions are recorded and stored – constantly available for access by the individual and the company through which the service was used.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Theorizing the Digital Subaltern
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by
Sara Morais
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published
Aug 02, 2013
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last modified
Aug 06, 2013 07:20 AM
As digital humanities research at CIS proceeds, a number of critical positions have arisen, making it possible to reconcile questions of humanities with the digital realm. This blog entry focusses on race as a factor of research and how it is displayed in the digital.
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RAW
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July 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 31, 2015
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last modified
Nov 21, 2015 04:23 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of July is below:
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Benefits, Harms, Rights and Regulation: A Survey of Literature on Big Data
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 23, 2017
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Internet Governance
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Files
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September 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 29, 2015
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last modified
Nov 25, 2015 01:55 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Anushree Gupta - Ladies ‘Log’: Women’s Safety and Risk Transfer in Ridehailing
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by
Anushree Gupta
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published
Jan 01, 2020
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:29 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This essay by Anushree Gupta is the third among a series of writings by researchers associated with the 'Mapping Digital Labour in India' project at the CIS, supported by the Azim Premji University, that were published on the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). The essay is edited by Noopur Raval, who co-led the project concerned.
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RAW
