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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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Internet Governance
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Blog
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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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News & Media
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Civil Liberties and the amended Information Technology Act, 2000
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by
Malavika Jayaram
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published
Aug 05, 2010
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:13 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance
This post examines certain limitations of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (as amended in 2008). Malavika Jayaram points out the fact that when most countries of the world are adopting plain English instead of the conventional legal terminology for better understanding, India seems to be stuck in the old-fashioned method thereby, struggling to maintain a balance between clarity and flexibility in drafting its laws. The present Act, she says, is although an improvement over the old Act and seeks to address and improve on certain areas in the right direction but still comes up short in making necessary changes when it comes to fundamental rights and personal liberties. The new Act retains elements from the previous one making it an abnormal document and this could have been averted if there had been some attention to detail.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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The power of the next click...
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Gaming,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures
P2P cameras and microphones hooked up to form a network of people who don't know each other, and probably don't care; a series of people in different states of undress, peering at the each other, hands poised on the 'Next' button to search for something more. Chatroulette, the next big fad on the internet, is here in a grand way, making vouyers out of us all. This post examines the aesthetics, politics and potentials of this wonderful platform beyond the surface hype of penises and pornography that surrounds this platform.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Separating the 'Symbiotic Twins'
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by
Nitya V
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published
Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Sep 18, 2019 02:10 PM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Cybercultures
This post tries to undo the comfortable linking that has come to exist in the ‘radical’ figure of the cyber-queer. And this is so not because of a nostalgic sense of the older ways of performing queerness, or the world of the Internet is fake or unreal in comparison to bodily experience, and ‘real’ politics lies elsewhere. This is so as it is a necessary step towards studying the relationship between technology and sexuality.
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RAW
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Blogs
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Queer Histories of the Internet
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Peeping Toms In Your Inbox
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 15, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 11:42 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Nothing’s safe any more—not your mobile number, nor your e-mail—as they’re put on offer for the benefit of telemarketers, writes Namrata Joshi and Neha Bhatt in an article published in the Outlook.
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News & Media
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I don't want my fingerprints taken
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 11, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 11:41 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Through this article published in Down to Earth, Nishant Shah looks at the role of the state as arbiter of our privacy.
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News & Media
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Rick van Amersfoort to give a public lecture on his work at CIS on May 15
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 10, 2010
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last modified
Apr 05, 2011 04:07 AM
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filed under:
Research
Rick van Amersfoort, researcher based in Amsterdam will describe his work at Buro Jansen & Janssen, in the Netherlands and Europe.
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Events
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Technological Protection Measures in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Apr 28, 2010
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last modified
May 17, 2012 04:51 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
FLOSS,
Technological Protection Measures,
Publications
In this post Pranesh Prakash conducts a legal exegesis of section 65A of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which deals with the stuff that enables 'Digital Rights/Restrictions Management', i.e., Technological Protection Measures. He notes that while the provision avoids some mistakes of the American law, it still poses grave problems to consumers, and that there are many uncertainties in it still.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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The (in)Visible Subject: Power, Privacy and Social Networking
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by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Feb 26, 2010
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
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filed under:
Social Networking,
Attention Economy,
Facebook,
Privacy
In this entry, I will argue that the interplay between privacy and power on social network sites works ultimately to subject individuals to the gaze of others, or to alternatively render them invisible. Individual choices concerning privacy preferences must, therefore, be informed by the intrinsic relationship which exists between publicness/privateness and subjectivity/obscurity.
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Openness
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Blog
