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Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill: by Elonnai Hickok — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
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Very Big Brother: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 14, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society, the organization I work for, currently serves on a committee established by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology in January 2013. The committee has been charged with preparing a report on the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill.
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Banking Policy Guide: by Kartik Chawla — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Jan 22, 2015 02:54 PM — filed under: Banking, Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
To gain a practical perspective on the existing banking practices and policies in India in this project, an empirical study of five separate and diverse banks has been conducted. The forms, policy documents, and other relevant and available documents of these banks have been analysed in this project.
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NETmundial - Contributions by Countries of Origin: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:55 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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NETmundial - Which Governments Have Not Submitted Contributions to NETmundial?: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 22, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:47 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, NETmundial
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NETmundial Day 1: by Achal Prabhala — published Apr 24, 2014 — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's speech at the opening of NETmundial in São Paulo was refreshingly free of the UN-speak that characterised virtually every single other presentation this morning. The experience of sitting for five hours in a room where the word "multi-stakeholder" is repeated at the rate of five mentions per minute is not for the faint-hearted; it almost makes you wish for more of the straight-talking tough-love of people like Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
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NETmundial: Tracking *Multistakeholder* across Contributions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 24, 2014 — last modified Apr 25, 2014 09:53 AM — filed under: ICANN, IANA, Internet Governance, NETmundial
This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.
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6th Biannual Surveillance and Society Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 19, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 04:57 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at the conference organized by Eticas Research and Consulting at the University of Barcelona and CCCB from April 24 to 26, 2014.
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No party's got a clear stand, Aadhaar's fate hangs in balance: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 13, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 06:01 AM — filed under: UID, Internet Governance, Privacy
A non-UPA government for sure will review the multi-crore UID programme, but none of the parties have yet talked about scrapping it.
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Privacy Law in India: A Muddled Field - I: by Bhairav Acharya — published Apr 15, 2014 — last modified May 05, 2014 06:17 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The absence of a statute expressing the legislative will of a democracy to forge a common understanding of privacy is a matter of concern, says BHAIRAV ACHARYA in the first of a two part series.
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