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                                      Policy Brief on the Report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on ICT
                                     
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                                              Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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In light of the complex challenges and threats posed to, and by, the field of information telecommunications in cyberspace, in 1998 the draft resolution in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly was introduced and adopted without a vote (A/RES/53/70) ]. Since then, the Secretary General to the General Assembly has invited annual reports on the issue.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Policy Brief: Oversight Mechanisms for Surveillance
                                     
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                                      Policy Design Jam
                                    
 
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Pallavi Bedi, Akash Sheshadri and Anubha Sinha attended the event organized by Whatsapp and ISPP on 16 September 2019 at Indian School of Public Policy campus, Qutub Institutional Area, Delhi.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Poor Guarantee of Online Freedom in India
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                              Jun 17, 2012
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                        
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The debate over the "Intermediaries Guidelines" as part of the Information Technology Act, 2000 in Parliament brought focus to the issue of censorship and lack of accountability of governing bodies vis-à-vis the internet in the country. This cannot be divorced from the larger questions related to the threats to freedom of expression from both the state and various societal actors today.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Power over privacy: New Personal Data Protection Bill fails to really protect the citizen’s right to privacy
                                    
 
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                                              Nikhil Pahwa
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Nikhil Pahwa throws light on the new personal data protection bill.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Pranesh Prakash as Resource Person for ITD seminar on Competition
                                    
 
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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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                                      Pratap Vikram Singh - Why Aadhaar is Baseless?
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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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
                                     
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                                              Rohan George
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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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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                                      Press Release, March 11, 2016: The Law cannot Fix what Technology has Broken!
                                     
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                                              Japreet Grewal and Sunil Abraham
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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We published and circulated the following press release on March 11, 2016, as the  Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016. This Bill was proposed by finance minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley to give legislative backing to Aadhaar, being implemented by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
                                      
                                          
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                                      Press Release, March 15, 2016: The New Bill Makes Aadhaar Compulsory!
                                     
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                                              Amber Sinha
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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We published and circulated the following press release on March 15, 2016, to highlight the fact that the Section 7 of the Aadhaar Bill, 2016 states that authentication of the person using her/his Aadhaar number can be made mandatory for the
purpose of disbursement of government subsidies, benefits, and services; and in case the person does not have an Aadhaar number, s/he will have to apply for Aadhaar enrolment. 
                                      
                                          
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