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India’s Civil Liberties Crisis: Of Bans, Blocks, Bullying and Biometrics: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 25, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Censorship
Malavika Jayaram will be a speaker at this event which is organized by the Center for Global Communication Studies and will be held at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia, on March 28, 2013, from 12 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.
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Internet Censorship, Surveillance, and Corporate Transparency: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 25, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
Google’s Dorothy Chou will be in conversation with international experts Annenberg School of Communication, St., Philadelphia, on April 3, 2013, from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Malavika Jayaram is participating in the event as a panelist. The event is organised by Center for Global Communication Studies and Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
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DML 2013 – Fourth Annual Conference: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance
The fourth annual conference – DML2013 – was organized around the theme “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and was held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the sponsors for this event.
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Namaste, Mr. Eric Schmidt: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance
An article by R. Jai Krishna published in the Wall Street Journal on March 20, 2013 quotes Sunil Abraham.
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Reply to RTI Application on Blocking of website and Rule 419A of Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Social Media, Internet Governance, Censorship
The Department of Telecommunications sent its reply to an RTI application from the Centre for Internet and Society. The application was sent on December 27, 2012 with reference to blocking of websites and Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951.
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Reply to RTI Application on the List of Nodal Officers Designated Under the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 21, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society had sent an RTI to the Department of Electronics & Information Technology on December 4, 2012. The Department responded to the same through this notification on January 7, 2013. The letter sent and the notification received are reproduced below.
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Global Partners Meeting @ London: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 20, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Privacy International is organizing the Global Partners Meeting in London from March 22 to 25, 2013. The workshop will be held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sunil Abraham and Malavika Jayaram will be participating in this event.
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Indian police set up lab to monitor social media: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 19, 2013 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
Mumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.
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Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 Analysis: by Jeremy Gruber — published Mar 19, 2013 — last modified Mar 19, 2013 09:53 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Jeremy Gruber from the Council for Responsible Genetics, US provides an analysis of the Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012. He says that India’s updated 2012 Human DNA Profiling Bill offers largely superficial changes from its predecessor, the Draft DNA Profiling Bill, 2007.
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Workshop on the Unique Identity Number (UID), the National Population Register (NPR) and Governance: What will happen to our data?: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 18, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:28 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
On March 2nd, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society and the Say No to UID campaign organized a workshop to discuss the present state of the UID and NPR schemes. Some of the questions which were addressed included ´How do the UID and NPR impact citizenship´, ´Why and how is national security linked to UID/NPR´, and ´What is the relationship between UID and Big Data´.
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