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POV: Should user-generated content be monitored?: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 19, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance
After being in the dock for carrying 'objectionable' content, Google and Facebook, along with15 other websites, are fighting for what they call internet freedom. Wikipedia went dark to protest the Web Piracy Bill being introduced in the US. afaqs! speaks to industry experts to find out if a move to monitor content can backfire.
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Power over privacy: New Personal Data Protection Bill fails to really protect the citizen’s right to privacy: by Nikhil Pahwa — published Dec 15, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Nikhil Pahwa throws light on the new personal data protection bill.
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Power to the People: by Nishant Shah — published May 15, 2011 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:35 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The digital revolution has helped make NGOs and civil society more influential, independent and transparent, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in the Indian Express on Sunday, May 15, 2011.
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Power to youth: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance
The inclusion of young politicians in the recent reshuffle saw the average age of the Union Cabinet come down. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Across sectors, a new order is emerging as the next generation takes over the reigns. It has been one of our biggest paradoxes - a country which has one of the youngest populations in the world has not been harnessing the energy, verve and change-making abilities of its young.
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PPOs save placement-record as Christ Law’s 2nd graduating batch hosts fewer law firms: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 18, 2012 — last modified Jun 18, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
The number of recruiting law firms visiting Christ College of Law Bangalore slumped to two this year, but the second batch graduating from the college made it up in terms of pre placement offers (PPOs) to secure 21 total jobs, one short of the college’s debut recruitment record.
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Pranesh Prakash as Resource Person for ITD seminar on Competition: by Admin — published Jun 26, 2019 — last modified Jul 04, 2019 04:23 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Pranesh Prakash represented the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) as a resource person for a training seminar held by the International Institute for Trade and Development, which is an organization with a UN mandate and funding by the Thai government. The event was held from 24 - 26 June 2019 at Bangkok.
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Pranesh Prakash elected as Asia-Pacific Representative to the Executive Committee of NonCommercial Users Constituency: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 31, 2013 — last modified Jan 06, 2014 02:50 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash has been elected as the Asia-Pacific representative to the executive committee of the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) (part of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, which is in turn part of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which is in turn part of ICANN).
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Pranesh Prakash on the US snooping into Indian cyber space: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 02, 2013 04:19 PM — filed under: Video, Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash, Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society, talks about the ramifications of US incursion into the privacy of Indians through cyber space. He says that Indian laws on privacy and free speech shall be applied to the web companies in India so that they actually not surrender the privacy of Indian citizens just because American law requires them to.
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Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 17, 2016 — last modified Apr 02, 2016 05:31 AM — filed under: UID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Digital India, Aadhaar, Biometrics
This article by Pratap Vikram Singh, Governance Now, discusses the problems emerging out of the UIDAI project due to its lack of mechanisms for informed and granular consent, and for seeking recourse in the case of denial of service. The article quotes Sumandro Chattapadhyay and mentions Hans Varghese Mathew's work on the biometric basis of UIDAI. It was written before the Aadhaar bill was passed in Lok Sabha.
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Predictive Policing: What is it, How it works, and its Legal Implications: by Rohan George — published Nov 24, 2015 — last modified Nov 24, 2015 04:31 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Big Data, Privacy
This article reviews literature surrounding big data and predictive policing and provides an analysis of the legal implications of using predictive policing techniques in the Indian context.
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