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When Data Means Privacy, What Traces Are You Leaving Behind?
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by
Noopur Raval
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published
Jul 18, 2011
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last modified
Nov 24, 2011 09:24 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
How do you know yourself to be different from others? What defines the daily life that you live and the knowledge you produce in the span of this life? Is all that information yours or are you a mere stakeholder on behalf of the State whose subject you are? What does privacy really mean? In a society that is increasingly relying on information to identify people, collecting and archiving ‘personal’ details of your lives, your name, age, passport details, ration card number, call records etc, how private is your tweet, status update, text message or simply, your restaurant bill?
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Privacy
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My Experiment with Scam Baiting
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by
Sahana Sarkar
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published
Jul 15, 2011
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Today, as I am sure many of you have experienced, Internet scams are widespread and very deceptive. As part of my research into privacy and the Internet, I decided to follow a scam and attempt to fully understand how Internet scams work, and what privacy implications they have for Internet users. Though there are many different types of scams that take place over the Internet —identity scams, housing scams, banking scams— just to name a few. I decided to look in depth at the lottery scam.
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Privacy
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RTI and Third Party Information: What Constitutes the Private and Public?
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by
Noopur Raval
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published
Jul 12, 2011
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last modified
Nov 24, 2011 09:21 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The passing of the Right to Information Act, 2005 was seen as giving an empowering tool in the hands of the citizens of India, six years post its implementation, loopholes have surfaced with misuse of the many fundamental concepts, which have yet not been defined to allow for a consistent pattern of decisions. Among many problems that emerge with the Act, a major problem is defining the extent to which an individual has access to other people’s information. While most of us tend to think that asking for other people’s phone numbers, personal details like passport number or IT returns are private and would be kept so, under the RTI Act and as seen in the Central Information Commission (CIC) decisions, all of these details can be availed of by someone who doesn’t know you at all!
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Aadhaar’s moment of truth
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 05, 2011
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last modified
Jul 05, 2011 07:16 AM
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
It’s time for the unique identity project to answer tough questions it has dodged so far, writes MA Arun in the Deccan Herald.
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June 2011 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 29, 2011
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last modified
Jul 30, 2012 07:14 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW,
Openness
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage:
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Newsletters
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Socio-financial Online Networks: Globalizing Micro-Credit through Micro-transactional Networked Platforms – A Public Lecture by Radhika Gajalla
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 24, 2011
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filed under:
Lecture,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society invites you to a public lecture by Prof. Radhika Gajalla of Bowling Green State University. She will give a lecture on how microfinance online functions through the social networked online space and the micro-transactional abilities of the interface together work to enhance financialization of the globe.
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Events
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Internet Surveillance Policy: “…the second time as farce?” – A Public Lecture by Caspar Bowden
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 23, 2011
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last modified
Sep 08, 2011 03:19 AM
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filed under:
Lecture,
Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, invites you to a public lecture by Caspar Bowden*, the Chief Privacy Adviser of Microsoft’s Worldwide Technology Office, on Internet Surveillance Policy: “…the second time as farce?
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Privacy and Security Can Co-exist
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jun 22, 2011
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 09:05 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The blanket surveillance the Centre seeks is not going to make India more secure, writes Sunil Abraham in this article published in Mail Today on June 21, 2011.
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Copyright Enforcement and Privacy in India
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by
Prashant Iyengar
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published
Jun 14, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:27 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Copyright can function contradictorily, as both the vehicle for the preservation of privacy as well as its abuse, writes Prashant Iyengar. The research examines the various ways in which privacy has been implicated in the shifting terrain of copyright enforcement in India and concludes by examining the notion of the private that emerges from a tapestry view of the relevant sections of Copyright Act.
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Look what the state just did to you
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 12, 2011
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last modified
Jun 16, 2011 10:51 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The government's recent introduction of new rules in the IT Act allows 'offensive' material on any website to be removed within 36 hours. Did the state just arm everyone to shoot the messenger, online?Th
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