Centre for Internet & Society

Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 v/s 2015 Bill

by Vanya Rakesh

This entry analyses the Human DNA Profiling Bill introduced in 2012 with the provisions of the 2015 Bill

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Data Flow in the Unique Identification Scheme of India

by Vidushi Marda

This note analyses the data flow within the UID scheme and aims at highlighting vulnerabilities at each stage. The data flow within the UID Scheme can be best understood by first delineating the organizations involved in enrolling residents for Aadhaar. The UIDAI partners with various Registrars usually a department of the central or state Government, and some private sector agencies like LIC etc– through a Memorandum of Understanding for assisting with the enrollment process of the UID project.

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Response by the Centre for Internet and Society to the Draft Proposal to Transition the Stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration

by Pranesh Prakash

This proposal was made to the Global Multistakeholder Community on August 9, 2015. The proposal was drafted by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. The research assistance was provided by Padmini Baruah, Vidushi Marda, and inputs from Sunil Abraham.

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Supreme Court Order is a Good Start, but is Seeding Necessary?

by Elonnai Hickok and Rohan George

This blog post seeks to unpack the ‘seeding’ process in the UIDAI scheme, understand the implications of the Supreme Court order on this process, and identify questions regarding the UID scheme that still need to be clarified by the court in the context of the seeding process.

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Are we Throwing our Data Protection Regimes under the Bus?

by Rohan George

In this blog post Rohan examines why the principle of consent is providing us increasingly less of an aegis in protecting our data.

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CIS Comments and Recommendations to the Human DNA Profiling Bill, June 2015

by Elonnai Hickok, Vipul Kharbanda and Vanya Rakesh

The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted a clause-by-clause comments on the Human DNA Profiling Bill that was circulated by the Department of Biotechnology on June 9, 2015.

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The seedy underbelly of revenge porn

by Prasad Krishna

Intimate photos posted by angry exes are becoming part of an expanding online body of dirty work.

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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Open Review

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and modification. Please share your comments via email sent to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org with 'Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Comments' as the subject line. This text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Open Review

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of the section is being shared here to invite suggestions for addition and modification. Please share your comments via email sent to raw[at]cis-india[dot]org with 'Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Comments' as the subject line. This text is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

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