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Blog Entry The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India
by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi published Apr 18, 2024 last modified Apr 19, 2024 03:11 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social Precarities, an anthology edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen and published with Data & Society.
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Blog Entry Online Gender Based Violence on Short Form Video Platforms
by Divyansha Sehgal and Lakshmi T. Nambiar published Apr 11, 2024 last modified Apr 11, 2024 03:24 AM — filed under: , , , ,
An inquiry into platform policies and safeguards. This report explores how short-form video platforms in India address online gender based violence (oGBV) by analysing their terms of service, community guidelines (CG), and reporting workflows.
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Blog Entry India’s parental control directive and the need to improve stalkerware detection
by Divyank Katira published Apr 04, 2024 last modified Apr 04, 2024 02:20 PM
We analyse a child-monitoring app being developed by the Indian government and question whether it is an effective way to enact parental controls. We highlight how such monitoring apps are often repurposed for digital stalking and play a role in intimate partner violence. We also evaluate the protection provided by antivirus tools in detecting such stalkerware apps and describe how we collected technical evidence to help improve the detection of these apps.
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Blog Entry How the Telecom Act undermines personal liberties
by Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri published Feb 20, 2024 — filed under:
In this article, Prof. Rajat Kathuria and Isha Suri analyse whether the law has enough safeguards and an independent regulatory architecture to protect the rights of citizens. The authors posit that the current version leaves the door open for an overenthusiastic enforcement machinery to suppress fundamental rights without any meaningful checks and balances.
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Blog Entry Comments to the Telecommunications Bill, 2023
by Isha Suri, Nishant Shankar, Shweta Mohandas, and Vipul Kharbanda published Dec 22, 2023 last modified Jan 06, 2024 01:21 AM — filed under:
The Parliament has passed the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 which seeks to replace the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submits its comments to the bill.
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Blog Entry Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and India
by Shweta Mohandas published Jul 10, 2023 — filed under: , , , ,
Through this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management policy.
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Blog Entry The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022
by Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi published Jan 20, 2023 — filed under: , , ,
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) published its comments and recommendations to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, on December 17, 2022.
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Blog Entry  CIS’ Comments to the (Draft) Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022
by Abhishek Raj, Divyank Katira, Isha Suri, Shweta Mohandas, and Vipul Kharbanda published Nov 22, 2022 — filed under:
The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India invited comments on the Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.
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Blog Entry Demystifying Data Breaches in India
by Pawan Singh published Oct 17, 2022 — filed under: , , , ,
Despite the rate at which data breaches occur and are reported in the media, there seems to be little information about how and when they are resolved. This post examines the discourse on data breaches in India with respect to their historical forms, with a focus on how the specific terminology to describe data security incidents has evolved in mainstream news media reportage.
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Blog Entry Getting the (Digital) Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Right
by Arindrajit Basu published Oct 03, 2022 — filed under: , , ,
On the eve of the Tokyo Quad Summit in May 2022, President Biden unveiled the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), visualising cooperation across the Indo-Pacific based on four pillars: trade; supply chains; clean energy, decarbonisation and infrastructure; and tax and anti-corruption. Galvanised by the US, the other 13 founding members of the IPEF are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The first official in-person Ministerial meeting was held in Los Angeles on 9 September 2022.
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