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Privacy and Telecommunications: Do We Have the Safeguards?
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Elonnai Hickok
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published
Nov 22, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:06 AM
All of you often come across unsolicited and annoying telemarketing calls/ SMS's, prank calls, pestering calls for payment, etc. Do we have any safeguards against them? This blog post takes a look at the various rules and regulations under Indian law to guard our privacy and confidentiality.
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C.I.S Responds to Privacy Approach Paper
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Nov 22, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:08 AM
A group of officers was created to develop a framework for a privacy legislation that would balance the need for privacy protection, security, sectoral interests, and respond to the domain legislation on the subject. Shri Rahul Matthan of Tri Legal Services prepared an approach paper for the legal framework for a proposed legislation on privacy. The approach paper is now being circulated for seeking opinions of the group of officers and is also being placed on the website of the Department of Personnel and Training for seeking public views on the subject. The Privacy India team at C.I.S responded to the approach paper and has called for the need for a more detailed study of statutory enforcement models and mechanisms in the creation of a privacy legislation.
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 24, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 08:16 AM
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Internet Governance
The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
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Beyond Access as Inclusion
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by
Anja Kovacs
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published
Aug 31, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM
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Development,
Digital Access,
Internet Governance,
human rights
On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2010
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last modified
Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PM
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Internet Governance,
Copyright
India's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
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Wherever you are, whatever you do
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Aug 25, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:12 AM
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Internet Governance
Facebook recently launched a location-based service called Places. Privacy advocates are resenting to this new development. Sunil Abraham identifies the three prime reasons for this outcry against Facebook. The article was published in the Indian Express on 23 August, 2010.
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RIM Offered Security Fixes
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 14, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:24 AM
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Telecom
In India Talks, BlackBerry Maker Said It Could Share Metadata, Notes Show
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Does the Government want to enter our homes?
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Aug 13, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:12 AM
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Internet Governance
When rogue politicians and bureaucrats are granted unrestricted access to information then the very future of democracy and free media will be in jeopardy. In an article published in the Pune Mirror on 10 August, 2010, Sunil Abraham examines this in light of the BlackBerry-to-BlackBerry messenger service that the Government of India plans to block if its makers do not allow the monitoring of messages. He says that civil society should rather resist and insist on suitable checks and balances like governmental transparency and a fair judicial oversight instead of allowing the government to intrude into the privacy and civil liberties of its citizens.
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UID Project in India - Some Possible Ramifications
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by
Liliyan
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published
Aug 11, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:13 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Having a standard for decentralized ID verification rather than a centralized database that would more often than not be misused by various authorities will solve ID problems, writes Liliyan in this blog entry. These blog posts to be published in a series will voice the expert opinions of researchers and critics on the UID project and present its unique shortcomings to the reader.
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Govt and BlackBerry firm wait for the other to hang up
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 09, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 10:46 AM
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filed under:
Telecom
Sunil Abraham speaks to Archna Shukla on the stand-off between the Government of India and RIM. The news was published in expressindia.com.
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