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The Potential for the Normative Regulation of Cyberspace: Implications for India: by Pranav M B — published Jul 30, 2018 — last modified Jul 31, 2018 11:49 PM — filed under: Cyberspace, Internet Governance
Author: Arindrajit Basu Edited by: Elonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Udbhav Tiwari Research Assistance: Tejas Bharadwaj
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Lining up the data on the Srikrishna Privacy Draft Bill: by Sunil Abraham — published Jul 31, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
In the run-up to the Justice BN Srikrishna committee report, some stakeholders have advocated that consent be eliminated and replaced with stronger accountability obligations. This was rejected and the committee has released a draft bill that has consent as the bedrock just like the GDPR. And like the GDPR there exists legal basis for nonconsensual processing of data for the “functions of the state”. What does this mean for lawabiding persons?
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Smartphone rumours spark series of mob killings in India: by Admin — published Jul 31, 2018 — filed under: Internet Governance
Nation reels from killings blamed on fake reports of kidnappers spread on WhatsApp
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Spreading unhappiness equally around: by Sunil Abraham — published Jul 31, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The section of civil society opposed to Aadhaar is unhappy because the UIDAI and all other state agencies that wish to can process data non-consensually.
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Making Voices Heard: by Shweta Mohandas — published Jun 27, 2022 — filed under: Voice User Interface, Privacy, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Research, Featured, Homepage
We are happy to announce the launch of our final report on the study ‘Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India. The study was undertaken with support from the Mozilla Corporation.
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Comments to the draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021: by Anamika Kundu, Digvijay Chaudhary, Divyansha Sehgal, Isha Suri and Torsha Sarkar — published Jul 07, 2022 — filed under: Digital Media, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Information Technology
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) presented its comments on the draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (‘the rules’), which were released on 6 June, 2022 for public comments.
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Climate Change and Controversy Mapping: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2012 — last modified Feb 27, 2012 04:10 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
A three-day workshop with Professor Bruno Latour, Dean for Research at Sciences Po, Paris. The workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Devechia Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from March 19 to March 21, 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
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GeekUp with Erica Hagen: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 27, 2012 — last modified Feb 29, 2012 03:00 AM — filed under: Lecture, Event Type, Internet Governance
HasGeek is organizing a GeekUp with Erica Hagen of the GroundTruth Initiative on 1 March 2012 at 5 p.m. Erica will speak on the theme: "From Information to Empowerment: Unpacking the Equation".
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Privacy International Network Meeting: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 21, 2015 — last modified May 02, 2015 05:02 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham will be attending this meeting organized by Privacy International, UK in London on April 22 and 23, 2015.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
DeitY says 143 URLs have been Blocked in 2015; Procedure for Blocking Content Remains Opaque and in Urgent Need of Transparency Measures: by Jyoti Panday — published Apr 29, 2015 — last modified Apr 30, 2015 07:37 AM — filed under: Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Expression, RTI, Intermediary Liability, Accountability, Featured, 69A, Internet Governance, Chilling Effect, Transparency, Homepage, Blocking
Across India on 30 December 2014, following an order issued by the Department of Telecom (DOT), Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocked 32 websites including Vimeo, Dailymotion, GitHub and Pastebin.
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