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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin Maclay: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 13, 2013 — last modified Mar 15, 2013 05:07 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Colin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
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Privacy Matters — Analyzing the Right to "Privacy Bill": by Natasha Vaz — published Jan 28, 2012 — last modified Feb 15, 2012 04:27 AM — filed under: Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Featured
On January 21, 2012 a public conference “Privacy Matters” was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. It was the sixth conference organised in the series of regional consultations held as “Privacy Matters”. The present conference analyzed the Draft Privacy Bill and the participants discussed the challenges and concerns of privacy in India.
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IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Process and India' s Position: by Jyoti Panday — published May 30, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 09:26 AM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, IANA Transition
Jyoti Panday participated in the workshop organized by CCAOI on "IANA Transition & ICANN Accountability Process and India' s Position" on May 30, 2015.
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Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation: by Bhairav Acharya — published Jul 13, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 10:12 AM — filed under: IT Act, Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Chilling Effect
This note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Internet Policy Observatory of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Privacy, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice: The Common Law Recognition of Homosexuality: by Bhairav Acharya — published Jul 18, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 12:20 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
In the last few decades, all major common law jurisdictions have decriminalised non-procreative sex – oral and anal sex (sodomy) – to allow private, consensual, and non-commercial homosexual intercourse.
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Mastering the Art of Keeping Indians Under Surveillance: by Bhairav Acharya — published May 30, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 12:26 PM — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
In its first year in office, the National Democratic Alliance government has been notably silent on the large-scale surveillance projects it has inherited. This ended last week amidst reports the government is hastening to complete the Central Monitoring System (CMS) within the year.
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The Four Parts of Privacy in India: by Bhairav Acharya — published May 30, 2015 — last modified Aug 23, 2015 01:04 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Privacy enjoys an abundance of meanings. It is claimed in diverse situations every day by everyone against other people, society and the state.
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Roundtable discussion on WHOIS: by Vidushi Marda — published Jul 28, 2015 — last modified Aug 24, 2015 02:16 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda participated remotely in a round-table discussion organized by the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India on July 28, 2015. Aditya Garg, an intern at the Centre for Internet & Society also participated (in person) from New Delhi and made an intervention.
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Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group Analysis: by Jyoti Panday — published Jul 31, 2015 — last modified Apr 12, 2016 10:02 AM — filed under: Multi-stakeholder, Internet Governance
This analysis has been done to see the trend in the selection and rotation of the members of the Multistakeholder advisory group (MAG) in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The MAG has been functional for nine years from 2006-2015. The analysis is based on data procured, collated and organised by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. Shambhavi Singh, Law Student, NLU Delhi who was interning with CIS at the time also assisted with the organisation and analysis of the data.
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July 2015 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2015 — last modified Nov 21, 2015 04:23 PM — 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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