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What Bengaluru Thinks of the Big Tech Announcements in Silicon Valley
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 29, 2015
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last modified
Oct 18, 2015 01:26 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Facebook,
Internet Governance
There is a split verdict on the big tech announcements made out of California during the Prime Minister's visit, in the desi version of Silicon Valley - Bengaluru.
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What Centre will tell Supreme Court on Aadhaar and social media account linkage
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by
Amrita Madhukalya
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published
Aug 28, 2019
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last modified
Sep 02, 2019 04:28 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The top court had held in the Aadhaar case that the government can make the linking of the 12-digit-number mandatory only in the case of availing subsidies and welfare benefits. Consequently, Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act was struck down.
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What Does Facebook's Transparency Report Tell Us About the Indian Government's Record on Free Expression & Privacy?
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Mar 17, 2015
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last modified
Apr 05, 2015 05:08 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Transparency Reports,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Given India's online population, the number of user data requests made by the Indian government aren't very high, but the number of content restriction requests are not only high on an absolute number, but even on a per-user basis.
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Blog
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What Frameworks for Cross-Border Online Communities and Services
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 20, 2012
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last modified
Dec 05, 2012 12:10 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance Forum,
Video,
Internet Governance
Chinmayi Arun, Assistant Professor at National Law University India and Fellow at the CIS India, talks about the Internet Governance Forum 2012 Workshop 154 "What Frameworks for Cross-Border Online Communities and Services", which was hosted by the Internet & Jurisdiction Project on November 8, 2012.
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What if the Net shut down for a few days
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 30, 2013
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last modified
Apr 03, 2013 11:01 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
When spammers attacked Spamhaus, a European spam-fighting group in what was billed as the "biggest cyber attack in history", they managed to temporarily slow down the internet. But what if dedicated attackers succeeded in shutting down the internet for a longer time, maybe a few days? What would be the potential impact of such a scenario in a world where crucial data is stored on emails, most financial transactions have shifted online and an entire generation has grown up not realising what life without the web could be like?
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What India can Learn from the Snowden Revelations
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Oct 25, 2013
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last modified
Oct 25, 2013 07:29 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Big Brother is watching, across cyberspace and international borders. Meanwhile, the Indian government has few safeguards in theory and fewer in practice. There’s no telling how prevalent or extensive Indian surveillance really is.
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Blog
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What is Dilligaf?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance
On the web, time moves at the speed of thought: Groups emerge, proliferate and are abandoned as new trends and fads take precedence. Nowhere else is this dramatic flux as apparent as in the language that evolves online. While SMS lingo – like TTYL (Talk To You Later) and LOL (Laughing Out Loud)– has endured and become a part of everyday language, new forms of speech are taking over.
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What is net neutrality and why it is important
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 20, 2014
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last modified
Feb 03, 2014 08:24 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Internet is built around the idea of openness. It allows people to connect and exchange information freely, if the information or service is not illegal.
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What is the problem with ‘Ethical AI’? An Indian Perspective
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by
Arindrajit Basu and Pranav M.B.
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published
Jul 21, 2019
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Artificial Intelligence
On 22 May 2019, the OECD member countries adopted the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The Principles, meant to provide an “ethical framework” for governing Artificial Intelligence (AI), were the first set of guidelines signed by multiple governments, including non-OECD members: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, and Romania.
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What lurks beneath the Network
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
There is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown Anna Hazare spectacles), there is this increasing belief in the innate possibilities of social media as providing ways by which the world as we know it shall change for the better. Young people are getting on to the streets and demanding their rights to the future.
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