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New $1 Billion RIC Project Casts Doubts on Aadhaar: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 16, 2013 — last modified Apr 04, 2013 08:28 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Indian Government is going ahead with a new project dubbed RIC that will effectively undermine the existing UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority of India project and will cost a whopping $1 billion.
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Hacking without borders: The future of artificial intelligence and surveillance: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:30 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this post, Maria Xynou looks at some of DARPA´s artificial intelligence surveillance technologies in regards to the right to privacy and their potential future use in India.
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A Comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 15, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:32 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In this post, Maria Xynou gives us a comparison of the Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007 and the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012.
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Indian ID crisis unveils Aadhaar doubts: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 15, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Two separate organizations are capturing biometric data of over 1 billion Indians, creating fresh doubts in the government's justification to catalogue citizens.
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Summary of the CIS workshop on the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: by Maria Xynou — published Mar 14, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:33 PM — filed under: Workshop, Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS
On March 1st, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society organized a workshop which analysed the April 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and its potential implications on human rights in India.
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Unique Identification Scheme (UID) & National Population Register (NPR), and Governance: by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 14, 2013 — last modified Apr 30, 2014 05:03 AM — filed under: Video, Internet Governance, Privacy
This post examines the UID, NPR and Governance as it exists in India. The background note gives a summary of what is the NPR, the legal grounding of NPR, its objectives, and the information which could be collected under the NPR. The post also throws light on the UID, its objectives, process of enrollment in UID, how UID is being adopted by different states in India, and finally the differences and controversies in UID and NPR.
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Responding to govt requests is a challenge for online firms: Colin Maclay: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 13, 2013 — last modified Mar 15, 2013 05:07 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Colin M. Maclay, MD of Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, on challenges in cyberspace.
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Rethinking the Internet: The Way Forward: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 13, 2013 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Telecom Italia and Financial Times are organizing this event at Telecom Italia Future Centre in Italy on March 21 and 22, 2013. Pranesh Prakash is participating in this event.
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Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill (April 2012): High Level Concerns: by Elonnai Hickok — published Mar 12, 2013 — last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:36 PM — filed under: SAFEGUARDS, Internet Governance, Privacy
In 2007 the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill was piloted by the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, with the objective of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked. The February 2012 Bill was drafted by the Department of Biotechnology. Another working draft of the Bill was created in April 2012. The most recent version of the Bill seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional, and national level.
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An Introduction to Bitfilm & Bitcoin in Bangalore, India: by Benson Samuel — published Mar 12, 2013 — filed under: Video, Internet Governance
An event at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) was organized on January 23, 2013. The all star team at CIS was awesome at organizing this event for Bitcoin. Live streaming, mainstream newspaper coverage and Twitter based Q&A made this the first Bitcoin event in India that leveraged these mediums of information transfer.
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