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Delhi gang rape: What Facebook, Twitter expose about govt
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 31, 2012 — last modified Dec 31, 2012 01:02 AM — filed under: ,
When constable Subhash Tomar collapsed during the anti-rape agitation in New Delhi, the government was keen to say he suffered injuries inflicted by the protesters. But the administration's version of events was challenged soon on social media, and the mainstream media latched onto the mystery and started pressurising the government to come clean.
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December 2012 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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Blog Entry Tomorrow, Today
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 29, 2012 — last modified Jan 02, 2013 05:00 AM — filed under:
Our present is the future that our past had imagined. Around the same time last year, I remember taking stock of the technologies that we live with and wondering what 2012 would bring in.
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Blog Entry Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points
by Elonnai Hickok — published Dec 28, 2012 — filed under: ,
A symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.
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Bangalore CryptoParty!
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 28, 2012 — last modified Jan 06, 2013 01:47 PM — filed under: ,
Care about your privacy and online security? Want to fight against pervasive governmental surveillance and corporate invasions of privacy? The Centre for Internet & Society invites you to the CryptoParty tonight (Friday) at 6.00 p.m. Make sure to bring friends (and your laptop and smart phones)!
Located in Internet Governance / Events
‘The IT Act is fine, but its interpretation is not’
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2012 — filed under: ,
Several organisations such as the Alternate Law Forum and Centre for Internet and Society are campaigning to amend the IT Act 2000. However, SV Raghavan, scientific secretary, office of PSA to the government of India, stated that the law in place is fine but the stakeholders need to be educated on implementing it better.
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State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2012 — filed under: ,
A two-day conference was held in Rio on December 13 and 14 at Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort. Elonnai Hickok participated in the event and made a presentation on MLATS and International Cooperation for Law Enforcement Purposes.
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Govt likely to issue guidelines to clarify IT rules soon
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 20, 2012 — filed under: ,
Norms relate to the role of intermediaries such as telcos, Web service providers, others on hosting content online, writes Surabhi Agarwal.
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Blog Entry The Trouble with Hurried Solutions
by Chinmayi Arun — published Dec 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 20, 2012 04:23 AM — filed under: , ,
The World Conference on International Telecommunication showed that countries are not yet ready to arrive at a consensus on regulation and control of the Internet
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The freedom of expression debate: The State must mend fences with The Web
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 18, 2012 — last modified Jan 07, 2013 10:30 AM — filed under: , ,
A fortnight after her arrest, Renu Srinivasan spends her free time singing Ashley Tisdale's number Suddenly. The lyrics - Suddenly people know my name, suddenly, everything has changed - resonate with the story of her life ever since she 'liked' and 'shared' her friend, Shaheen Dhada's, 21, controversial post regarding Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook on November 18 and got arrested for it.
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