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Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India: by Maria Xynou — published Dec 18, 2013 — last modified Dec 26, 2013 05:24 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Electronics Today organised a series of expos on smart cards, e-security, RFID and biometric technology in Delhi on 16-18 October 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is sharing the brochures it collected from these public expos for research purposes.
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CPDP 2014 Reforming Data Protection: The Global Perspective: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 10, 2013 — last modified Dec 11, 2013 03:39 AM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance, Privacy
Already in its 7th edition, the annual Computer Privacy and Data Protection conference (organised by CPDP) is being held in Brussels from January 22 to 24, 2014. Malavika Jayaram will be speaking at this event.
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Technology in Government and Topics in Privacy: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 09, 2013 — last modified Dec 27, 2013 10:20 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at an event organized by Data Privacy Lab at CGIS Cafe, Cambridge Street, Harvard University Campus. She will speak on Biometrics in Beta – India's Identity Experiment on December 9, 2013.
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"Whatever happened to Privacy?" - International Activism Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 08, 2013 — last modified Feb 03, 2014 05:56 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Maria Xynou gave a keynote speech and participated as a panelist on the "Suspect Societies" panel. The event was organized by Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on December 5 and 6, 2013.
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Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1): by Pranesh Prakash — published Dec 06, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Privacy
In this series of blog posts, Pranesh Prakash looks at a brief history of misuse of surveillance powers in India. He notes that the government's surveillance powers have been freqently misused, very often without any kind of judicial or political redressal. This, he argues, should lead us as concerned citizens to demand a scaling down of the government's surveillance powers and pass laws to put it place more robust oversight mechanisms.
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I Just Pinged to Say Hello: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 30, 2013 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance, Privacy
A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
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CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.: by Elonnai Hickok — published Nov 30, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
The United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
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DesiSec: Episode 1 - Film Release and Screening: by Purba Sarkar — published Nov 28, 2013 — last modified Dec 17, 2013 08:13 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Surveillance, Cyber Security Film, Cyber Security, Event
The Centre for Internet and Society is pleased to to announce the release of the first documentary film on cybersecurity in India - DesiSec. We hope you can join us for a special screening of the first episode of DesiSec, on 11th December, at CIS!
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Big Democracy: Big Surveillance - A talk by Maria Xynou: by Maria Xynou — published Nov 26, 2013 — last modified Dec 12, 2013 10:23 AM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance, Privacy
Next Tuesday, Maria Xynou will be presenting her latest research on surveillance in India. Come and engage in a discussion on India's controversial surveillance schemes, surveillance industry and much much more!
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Panel on Privacy, Surveillance & the UID in the post-Snowden era: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 25, 2013 — last modified Nov 26, 2013 07:05 PM — filed under: Event, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Say No to UID campaign invite you to a discussion on the UID and on the implications of the world's largest biometric data collection scheme in a post-Snowden era. The panel will take place on November 30th at the Institution of Agricultural Technologists in Bangalore.
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