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‘Learn from failed UK NIR project’: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 23, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:12 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
The new government in the UK recently scrapped its decade-long work spending millions of pounds on establishing the National Identity Registration (NIR) number simply because it realised it wasn't workable. This article by Madhumita was published in the Deccan Chronicle on March 22, 2011.
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Privacy Matters - A Public Conference in Ahmedabad: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 22, 2011 — last modified Apr 04, 2011 07:14 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
On behalf of Privacy India, and in partnership with the Research Foundation for Governance in India and Society in Action Group, the Centre for Internet and Society invites you to “Privacy Matters” a public conference focused on discussing the challenges and concerns to privacy in India. The event will be held at the Ahmedabad Management Association. We would be honored if you would attend the meeting and contribute your views.
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Battle for the Internet: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 15, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 03:28 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
In this article written by Latha Jishnu and published by Down to Earth, Issue: March 15 2011, the author reports about the events in the United States in the post WikiLeaks scenario.
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Draft IT guidelines may gag internet freedom: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 12, 2011 — last modified Mar 22, 2011 04:16 AM
The draft rules proposed under the Information Technology Rules 2011 (due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) by the Indian government could lead to unprecedented levels of online censorship. This article by Shilpa Phadnis and Pranav Nambiar was published in the Times of India on March 11, 2011.
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Growing cyberspace controls, Internet filtering: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 02:36 PM
OpenNet Initiative investigates, analyses filtering and surveillance practices, writes T Ramachandran in this article published in the Hindu on Sunday, February 20, 2011.
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Open Letter to the Finance Committee: UID and Transactions: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 17, 2011 — last modified Feb 24, 2011 01:35 PM — filed under: Privacy
Since official documentation from the UIDAI is very limited, we assume that data pertaining to transactions would comprise of the Aadhaar number, identifier of the authenticating device, date-time stamp, and approval/rejection/error code. Recording and maintaining of data pertaining to transactions is very important because it increases transparency and accountability through an audit trail. However, storage of such sensitive data creates many privacy risks, because more often than not metadata gives you as much intelligence as raw data.
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Analysing the Right to Privacy and Dignity with Respect to the UID: by Deva Prasad — published Jan 26, 2011 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:54 AM
In the below note, Deva Prasad, LLM Candidate at NLSIU, explores the challenges that the UID project faces from a legal perspective.
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Privacy Matters — Conference Report: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 24, 2011 — last modified Jan 27, 2011 10:22 AM — filed under: Featured, Privacy
A one-day conference on Privacy Matters was held on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Law School in Kolkata. This was the first of a series of eleven conferences on ‘privacy’ that Privacy India is scheduled to host in different Indian cities from January to June this year. Members of Parliament, Sri Manoj Bhattacharya from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Sri Nilotpal Basu from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) spoke in the conference. Students, the civil society and lawyers also participated in it.
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4 Popular Myths about UID: by Prashant Iyengar — published Jan 22, 2011 — last modified Jun 20, 2012 04:37 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
By now, there is already a lot of material in the public domain that is critical about the UID/Aadhar project, writes Prashant Iyengar in this blog entry published in Privacy India on January 22, 2011.
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Would it be a unique identity crisis ?: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 03, 2011 — last modified Apr 01, 2011 05:10 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
The UID project will centralise a humongous amount of data but the fear is that it might fall into the wrong hands.
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