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Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillance: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:30 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this post, Maria Xynou looks at some of DARPA´s artificial intelligence surveillance technologies in regards to the right to privacy and their potential future use in India.
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Workshop on the Unique Identity Number (UID), the National Population Register (NPR) and Governance: What will happen to our data?: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 18, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:28 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
On March 2nd, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society and the Say No to UID campaign organized a workshop to discuss the present state of the UID and NPR schemes. Some of the questions which were addressed included ´How do the UID and NPR impact citizenship´, ´Why and how is national security linked to UID/NPR´, and ´What is the relationship between UID and Big Data´.
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Indian police set up lab to monitor social media: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 19, 2013 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
Mumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
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Global Partners Meeting @ London: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 20, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Privacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating in this event.
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Iceland’s proposed porn ban ‘like repression in Iran, N. Korea’ – activists: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 01, 2013 — last modified Mar 21, 2013 03:56 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
A group of 40 human rights activists from around the world fear that Iceland could become “a role model for Internet censorship” if it introduces Internet filters blocking online content deemed pornographic.
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Namaste, Mr. Eric Schmidt: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
An article by R. Jai Krishna published in the Wall Street Journal on March 20, 2013 quotes Sunil Abraham.
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DML 2013 – Fourth Annual Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance
The fourth annual conference – DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the sponsors for this event.
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Internet Governance Blog: by kaeru — published Aug 01, 2011 — last modified Oct 18, 2011 06:40 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
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Press controls ‘send wrong message to rest of world’: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 26, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Britain could trigger an international media crackdown if the Government goes ahead with plans for a Royal Charter to introduce a new Press regulator, free speech campaigners warned yesterday.
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CIS Welcomes Standing Committee Report on IT Rules: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 27, 2013 — last modified Apr 03, 2013 10:54 AM — filed under: IT Act, Privacy, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Featured, Censorship, Homepage
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes the report by the Standing Committee on Subordinate Legislation, in which it has lambasted the government and has recommended that the government amend the Rules it passed in April 2011 under section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
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