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Privacy Matters — Conference Report
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 24, 2011
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last modified
Jan 27, 2011 10:22 AM
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Featured,
Privacy
A one-day conference on Privacy Matters was held on Sunday, 23 January 2011 at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Law School in Kolkata. This was the first of a series of eleven conferences on ‘privacy’ that Privacy India is scheduled to host in different Indian cities from January to June this year. Members of Parliament, Sri Manoj Bhattacharya from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Sri Nilotpal Basu from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) spoke in the conference. Students, the civil society and lawyers also participated in it.
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Privacy Protection Bill, 2013 (With Amendments based on Public Feedback)
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Jun 30, 2013
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 10:50 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
SAFEGUARDS,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
In 2013 CIS drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with FICCI and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India.
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Privacy vs. Transparency: An Attempt at Resolving the Dichotomy
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Nov 14, 2014
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last modified
Mar 08, 2015 06:26 AM
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Privacy,
Featured,
Video,
Aadhaar,
Openness,
Open Access
The right to privacy has been articulated in international law and in some national laws. In a few countries where the constitution does not explicitly guarantee such a right, courts have read the right to privacy into other rights (e.g., the right to life, the right to equal treatment under law and also the right to freedom of speech and expression).
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Public Consultation for the First Draft of 'Government Open Data Use License - India' Announced
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Anubha Sinha
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published
Jun 30, 2016
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 09:41 AM
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Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness
The first public draft of the open data license to be used by Government of India was released by the Department of Legal Affairs earlier this week. Comments are invited from general public and stakeholders. These are to be submitted via the MyGov portal by July 25, 2016. CIS was a member of the committee constituted to develop the license concerned, and we contributed substantially to the drafting process.
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Openness
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RBI Directions on Account Aggregators
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by
Vipul Kharbanda and Elonnai Hickok
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published
Oct 21, 2016
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last modified
Oct 21, 2016 03:25 PM
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Banking,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Directions for account aggregator services in India seem to lay great emphasis on data security by allowing only direct access between institutions and do away with data scraping techniques.
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Rebuttal of DIT's Misleading Statements on New Internet Rules
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 13, 2011
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last modified
Jul 11, 2012 01:18 PM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
IT Act,
Featured,
Intermediary Liability
The press statement issued on May 11 by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) on the furore over the newly-issued rules on 'intermediary due diligence' is misleading and is, in places, plainly false. We are presenting a point-by-point rebuttal of the DIT's claims.
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Reclaiming AI Futures: Call for Contributions and Provocations
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by
Divij Joshi
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published
Nov 09, 2020
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last modified
Nov 18, 2020 09:04 AM
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Internet Governance
CIS is pleased to share this call for contributions by Mozilla Fellow Divij Joshi. CIS will be working with Divij to edit, collate, and finalise this publication. This publication will add to Divij’s work as part of the AI observatory. The work is entirely funded by Divij Joshi.
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Rejuvenating India’s Rivers the Wiki Way
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by
Subodh Kulkarni
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published
Mar 07, 2019
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last modified
Apr 01, 2019 01:18 PM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Homepage
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), an organisation working on rejuvenation of rivers in India, has began documentation of rivers on Wiki, especially to draw attention to and mitigate the crisis of toxic deposits facing more than 40 rivers in India. The work was started by Jal Biradari, TBS’s Maharashtra based group, in Sangli district with the help of the Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team of CIS. Here is the report from the first pilot workshop conducted by CIS-A2K during 22-25 December 2018 at Tarun Bharat Sangh Ashram, in Alwar, Rajasthan.
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Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill
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Elonnai Hickok
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
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Response to TRAI Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-the-Top (OTT) Services
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Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 09, 2015
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filed under:
Telecom,
Featured
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) sent a joint response to the TRAI Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for Over-the-top (OTT) Services with scholars from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The response was sent on March 27, 2015.
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