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CIS Submission to UN High Level Panel on Digital Co-operation: by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 30, 2019 — last modified Feb 19, 2019 01:41 AM — filed under: Privacy, Internet Governance, ICT
The High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation was convened by the UN Secretary-General to advance proposals to strengthen cooperation in the digital space among Governments, the private sector, civil society, international organizations, academia, the technical community and other relevant stakeholders. The Panel issued a call for input that called for responses to various questions. CIS responded to the call for inputs.
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Participation in the meeting of BIS LITD 17: by Admin — published Mar 03, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
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Nullcon Security Conference: by Admin — published Mar 07, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
On March 1 and 2, 2019, Karan Saini attended the Nullcon Security Conference organized by Nullcon at Holiday Inn Resort, Mobor Beach, Cavelossim, Salcette, Goa.
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Seminar on “Evolution of communication: Social Media & Beyond”: by Admin — published Mar 07, 2019 — last modified Mar 07, 2019 02:52 PM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham will be a speaker at this event organized by TRAI on March 15 at Hotel Radisson Blu GRT, Near Airport, Chennai. Sunil will be speaking on How should Internet Giants- Social Media, Search engines and ad tech be Regulated.
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DSCI-Infosys Roundtable: by Admin — published Mar 25, 2019 — last modified Apr 05, 2019 02:06 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham participated in this meeting organized by Infosys in Bangalore on March 25, 2019 as a speaker.
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Data Privacy and Citizen's Rights' Symposium Report: by Admin — published Mar 20, 2019 — last modified Apr 05, 2019 02:24 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Technology Law Forum at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) has published the Report on Data Privacy and Citizen's Rights' Symposium.
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Debate: Five Aadhaar Myths that Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2016 — last modified Apr 01, 2016 03:48 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
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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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Surveillance Project: by Sunil Abraham — published Apr 05, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Aadhaar project’s technological design and architecture is an unmitigated disaster and no amount of legal fixes in the Act will make it any better.
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Aadhaar: Still Too Many Problems: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 07, 2016 — last modified Apr 06, 2016 03:31 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
While one wishes to welcome govt’s attempt to bring Aadhaar within a legislative framework, the fact is there are too many problems that still remain unaddressed for one to be optimistic.
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