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Blog Entry An Analysis of the CLOUD Act and Implications for India
by Elonnai Hickok and Vipul Kharbanda published Aug 22, 2018 — filed under: , ,
India houses the second largest population in the world at approximately 1.35 billion individuals. In such a diverse and dense context, law enforcement could be a challenging job.
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Blog Entry An Analysis of the RBI’s Draft Framework on Regulatory Sandbox for Fintech
by Vipul Kharbanda published May 08, 2019 — filed under: ,
The term Fintech is generally used to describe innovative technology and technological processes being used in the financial services sector.
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Blog Entry An Interview with Activist Shubha Chacko: Privacy and Sex Workers
by Elonnai Hickok published Apr 25, 2011 last modified Mar 28, 2012 06:26 AM — filed under: ,
On February 20th I had the opportunity to speak with Shubha Chacko on privacy and sex workers. Ms. Chacko is an activist who works for Aneka, an NGO based in Bangalore, which fights for the human rights of sexual minorities. In my interview with Ms. Chacko I tried to understand how privacy impacts the lives of sex workers in India. The below is an account of our conversation.
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Blog Entry An Interview with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
by Elonnai Hickok published Dec 02, 2011 last modified Dec 03, 2011 01:26 AM — filed under: ,
Elonnai Hickok interviewed Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada. The full interview is reproduced below.
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Blog Entry An Interview with Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch Data Protection Authority and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party
by Elonnai Hickok published Oct 25, 2013 — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society interviewed Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch Data Protection Authority and Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party.
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Blog Entry An Interview with Suresh Ramasubramanian
by Elonnai Hickok published Sep 06, 2013 — filed under: , ,
Suresh Ramasubramanian is the ICS Quality Representative - IBM SmartCloud at IBM. We from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted an interview on cybersecurity and issues in the Cloud.
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Blog Entry An Open Letter to the Finance Committee: SCOSTA Standards
by Elonnai Hickok published Jan 06, 2011 last modified Dec 20, 2013 03:58 AM — filed under:
The UID Bill has been placed to the Finance Committee for review and approval. Through a series of open letters to the Finance Committee, civil society is asking the committee to take into consideration and change certain aspects of the Bill and the project. The below note compares the SCOSTA standard with the Aadhaar biometric standard, and explains why we believe the SCOSTA standard should replace the Aadhaar biometric standard for the authentication process in the UID scheme.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog / Privacy
Blog Entry An Overview of DNA Labs in India
by Shilpa Narani published Jul 24, 2011 last modified Feb 02, 2016 01:11 PM — filed under: ,
DNA fingerprinting has become the most precise and technologically advanced method for identifying crimes such as murder, kidnapping, robbery and rape. Police and judicial authorities and in some cases even private parties retain this in their records, writes Shilpa in this blog post.
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Blog Entry An Urgent Need for the Right to Privacy
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Mar 16, 2016 last modified Mar 17, 2016 07:40 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Along with a group of individuals and organisations from academia and civil society, we have drafted and are signatories to an open letter addressed to the Union government and urging the same to "urgently take steps to uphold the constitutional basis to the right to privacy and fulfil it’s constitutional and international obligations." Here we publish the text of the open letter. Please follow the link below to support it by joining the signatories.
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Blog Entry Analysis of Aadhaar Act in the Context of A.P. Shah Committee Principles
by Vipul Kharbanda published Mar 17, 2016 last modified Mar 17, 2016 07:43 PM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Whilst there are a number of controversies relating to the Aadhaar Act including the fact that it was introduced in a manner so as to circumvent the majority of the opposition in the upper house of the Parliament and that it was rushed through the Lok Sabha in a mere eight days, in this paper we shall discuss the substantial aspects of the Act in relation to privacy concerns which have been raised by a number of experts. In October 2012, the Group of Experts on Privacy constituted by the Planning Commission under the chairmanship of Justice AP Shah Committee submitted its report which listed nine principles of privacy which all legislations, especially those dealing with personal should adhere to. In this paper, we shall discuss how the Aadhaar Act fares vis-à-vis these nine principles.
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