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Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level Concerns: by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 12, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:36 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In 2007 the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill was piloted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, with the objective of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked. The February 2012 Bill was drafted by the Department of Biotechnology. Another working draft of the Bill was created in April 2012. The most recent version of the Bill seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level.
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Draft International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights: by Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 16, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:55 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
These principles were developed by Privacy International and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and seek to define an international standard for the surveillance of communications. The Centre for Internet and Society has been contributing feedback to the principles.
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Driving in the Surveillance Society: Cameras, RFID tags and Black Boxes...: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 26, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:26 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this post, Maria Xynou looks at red light cameras, RFID tags and black boxes used to monitor vehicles in India.
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DSCI Best Practices Meet: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 23, 2017 — last modified Jul 07, 2017 01:39 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Udbhav Tiwari represented CIS on a Panel titled "Reposing Trust in Citizen Identity Systems" at the DSCI Best Practices Meet held at the ITC Gardenia on June 22 and 23, 2017 in Bangalore.
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DSCI Best Practices Meet 2013: by Kovey Coles — published Jul 22, 2013 — last modified Jul 26, 2013 08:18 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The DSCI Best Practices Meet 2013 was organized on July 12, 2013 at Hyatt Regency, Anna Salai in Chennai. Kovey Coles attended the meet and shares a summary of the happenings in this blog post.
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DSCI's Bangalore chapter meet: by Admin — published Feb 02, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
On January 29, 2019, Karan Saini and Gurshabad Grover participated in the Bangalore chapter meet organized by Data Security Council of India in Bangalore.
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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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Due Diligence Project FGD by UN Women: by Admin — published Oct 20, 2019 — filed under: Due Diligence, Internet Governance, Privacy
On October 11, 2019, Radhika Radhakrishnan attended a focussed group discussion at the UN House, New Delhi, organized by UN Women for their multi-country research study on online violence (Due Diligence Project).
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E-Governance, Identity & Privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 26, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
This chapter will look at different legislations, projects, and policies pertaining to e-governance and identity that India has put in place, and examine both the strengths and the weaknesses of these, through the lense of privacy.
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Easing the US-India divergence on data localisation: by Shashidhar KJ and Kashish Parpiani — published Jul 30, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Addition of data localisation to the basket of persisting trade issues warrants greater compartmentalisation and consultative approaches to US-India ties.
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