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Technology in Government and Topics in Privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 09, 2013 — last modified Dec 27, 2013 10:20 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at an event organized by Data Privacy Lab at CGIS Cafe, Cambridge Street, Harvard University Campus. She will speak on Biometrics in Beta – India's Identity Experiment on December 9, 2013.
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Technology, Power, and Revolutions in the Arab Spring: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 01, 2013 — filed under: Event, Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore cordially invites you to a talk by Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan on technology, power and revolutions in the Arab Spring. The talk will be held in CIS office on July 2, 2013 from 6.00 p.m. onwards.
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Technology, Transparency and Accountability: A Bar-Camp in Delhi: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 06, 2011 — filed under: Internet Governance
Accountability Initiative (AI) held a bar-camp on “Technology, Transparency and Accountability” on 5th June at Google office in Gurgaon. Pranesh Prakash participated in this bar-camp.
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Ten Indian government agencies can now snoop on people’s internet data: by Admin — published Dec 25, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance
In a significant attack on online privacy, India’s Home Affair’s Ministry has authorised no fewer than ten different central government agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer”.
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Terms of Website Use: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 01, 2013 — filed under: Policies, Internet Governance
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Terror recruiters target Indians on internet: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 18, 2014 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
What's in a name? If it indicates your religious identity, then you could get trolled by strangers wanting to draw you in with videos on the importance of archaic customs and doctored accounts of world history.
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Text of DIT's Response to Second RTI on Website Blocking: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 27, 2011 — last modified Oct 28, 2011 02:37 PM — filed under: RTI, Internet Governance, Censorship
CIS had filed a request under the Right to Information Act with the government, asking a number of questions relating to blocking of content under the IT Act. We have reproduced below the response we got from the government.
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Thank You To Our 2014 Sponsors: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 22, 2014 — last modified Dec 27, 2014 02:27 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Today’s the last day of work in 2014 for the editorial team at MediaNama, though we’ll run a Holiday Wire update intermittently this week, we’ll have a brief year end review for each major segment. Thank you for reading us in 2014, and have a great Christmas and New Year.
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That’s the unkindest cut, Mr Sibal: by Sunil Abraham — published Dec 12, 2011 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
There’s Kolaveri-di on the Internet over Kapil Sibal’s diktat to social media sites to prescreen users’ posts. That diktat goes far beyond the restrictions placed on our freedom of expression by the IT Act. But, says Sunil Abraham of the Centre for Internet and Society, India is not going to be silenced online.
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The 'Global Multistakholder Community' is Neither Global Nor Multistakeholder: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 20, 2015 — last modified Nov 03, 2016 10:42 AM — filed under: Multi-stakeholder, ICANN, IANA Transition, Internet Governance
CIS research shows how Western, male, and industry-driven the IANA transition process actually is.
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