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Battle for the Internet
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 15, 2011
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Apr 01, 2011 03:28 PM
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Internet Governance
In this article written by Latha Jishnu and published by Down to Earth, Issue: March 15 2011, the author reports about the events in the United States in the post WikiLeaks scenario.
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Draft IT guidelines may gag internet freedom
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 12, 2011
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Mar 22, 2011 04:16 AM
The draft rules proposed under the Information Technology Rules 2011 (due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) by the Indian government could lead to unprecedented levels of online censorship. This article by Shilpa Phadnis and Pranav Nambiar was published in the Times of India on March 11, 2011.
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Growing cyberspace controls, Internet filtering
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 25, 2011
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Aug 20, 2011 02:36 PM
OpenNet Initiative investigates, analyses filtering and surveillance practices, writes T Ramachandran in this article published in the Hindu on Sunday, February 20, 2011.
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Open Letter to the Finance Committee: UID and Transactions
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 17, 2011
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Feb 24, 2011 01:35 PM
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Privacy
Since official documentation from the UIDAI is very limited, we assume that data pertaining to transactions would comprise of the Aadhaar number, identifier of the authenticating device, date-time stamp, and approval/rejection/error code. Recording and maintaining of data pertaining to transactions is very important because it increases transparency and accountability through an audit trail. However, storage of such sensitive data creates many privacy risks, because more often than not metadata gives you as much intelligence as raw data.
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Analysing the Right to Privacy and Dignity with Respect to the UID
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Deva Prasad
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Jan 26, 2011
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Mar 21, 2012 09:54 AM
In the below note, Deva Prasad, LLM Candidate at NLSIU, explores the challenges that the UID project faces from a legal perspective.
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Privacy Matters — Conference Report
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 24, 2011
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Jan 27, 2011 10:22 AM
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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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4 Popular Myths about UID
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Prashant Iyengar
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Jan 22, 2011
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Jun 20, 2012 04:37 AM
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Privacy
By now, there is already a lot of material in the public domain that is critical about the UID/Aadhar project, writes Prashant Iyengar in this blog entry published in Privacy India on January 22, 2011.
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Would it be a unique identity crisis ?
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 03, 2011
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Apr 01, 2011 05:10 PM
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The UID project will centralise a humongous amount of data but the fear is that it might fall into the wrong hands.
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Does the UID Reflect India?
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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Dec 27, 2010
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Mar 22, 2012 05:45 AM
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On December 17th the Campaign for No UID held a press conference and public meeting in Bangalore. Below is a summary and analysis of the events.
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The Niira Radia Tapes: Scrutinizing the Snoopers
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Prasad Krishna
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Nov 30, 2010
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Apr 02, 2011 07:29 AM
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Internet Governance
There’s been plenty of outrage in India over taped phone calls between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and local journalists, revealing what some people believe is evidence that star reporters at the country’s newspapers and TV channels are too cozy with the subjects they’re supposed to be reporting on.
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