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Power over privacy: New Personal Data Protection Bill fails to really protect the citizen’s right to privacy
by Nikhil Pahwa published Dec 15, 2019 — filed under: ,
Nikhil Pahwa throws light on the new personal data protection bill.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Blog Entry Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon published Feb 14, 2019 last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
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Blog Entry Call for Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and Surveillance
by Ambika Tandon published Jan 10, 2020 last modified Feb 13, 2020 03:05 PM — filed under: , , , ,
We are inviting applications for two researchers. Each researcher is expected to write a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that people of LGBTHIAQ+ and gender non-conforming identities and sexual orientations are put under as they seek sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in India. The researchers are expected to undertake field research in the location they are based in, and reflect on lived experiences gathered through field research as well as their own experiences of doing field research. Please read the sections below for more details about the work involved, the timeline for the same, and the application process for this call.
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Blog Entry Comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
by Amber Sinha, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Shweta Mohandas, Tanaya Rajwade published Feb 12, 2020 last modified Feb 21, 2020 10:13 AM — filed under: , ,
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.
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Blog Entry A Compilation of Research on the PDP Bill
by Pranav M B published Mar 05, 2020 last modified Mar 05, 2020 08:04 AM — filed under: , , ,
The most recent step in India’s initiative to create an effective and comprehensive Data Protection regime was the call for comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which closed last month. Leading up to the comments, CIS has published numerous research pieces with the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of how this legislation would place India within the global scheme, and how the local situation has developed, as well as analysing its impacts on citizens’ rights.
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Blog Entry Report on the 1st Privacy Round Table meeting
by Maria Xynou published Apr 22, 2013 last modified Jul 30, 2013 11:11 AM — filed under: , ,
This report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the first Privacy Round Table meeting in New Delhi, on 13th April 2013.
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Meeting of a Sub-committee on DNA Profiling Bill in Hyderabad
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 26, 2013 last modified Aug 21, 2013 06:21 AM — filed under: ,
A sub-committee has been constituted as per the recommendations of the Expert Committee of DNA Profiling Bill. The sub-committee will have a meeting in Hyderabad on August 6, 2013.
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Blog Entry More than a Hundred Global Groups Make a Principled Stand against Surveillance
by Elonnai Hickok published Jul 31, 2013 — filed under: ,
For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques.
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Blog Entry Guidelines for the Protection of National Critical Information Infrastructure: How Much Regulation?
by Jonathan Diamond published Jul 31, 2013 last modified Aug 01, 2013 04:48 AM — filed under: , ,
July has been a busy month for cyber security in India. Beginning with the release of the country’s first National Cyber Security Policy on July 2 and followed just this past week by a set of guidelines for the protection of national critical information infrastructure (CII) developed under the direction of the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), India has made respectable progress in its thinking on national cyber security.
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Now, Twitter too caught up in Cambridge Analytica controversy
by Admin published May 02, 2018 — filed under: , ,
Twitter does not share a break-up of users by region, the platform has less than 100 million users in India.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media