Centre for Internet & Society

Clearing Misconceptions: What the DoT Panel Report on Net Neutrality Says (and Doesn't)

by Pranesh Prakash

There have been many misconceptions about what the DoT Panel Report on Net Neutrality says: the most popular ones being that they have recommended higher charges for services like WhatsApp and Viber, and that the report is an anti-Net neutrality report masquerading as a pro-Net neutrality report. Pranesh Prakash clears up these and other incorrect notions about the report in this brief analysis.

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Aadhaar Number vs the Social Security Number

by Elonnai Hickok

This blog calls out the differences between the Aadhaar Number and the Social Security Number

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Privacy, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice: The Common Law Recognition of Homosexuality

by Bhairav Acharya

In the last few decades, all major common law jurisdictions have decriminalised non-procreative sex – oral and anal sex (sodomy) – to allow private, consensual, and non-commercial homosexual intercourse.

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A Dissent Note to the Expert Committee for DNA Profiling

by Elonnai Hickok

The Centre for Internet and Society has participated in the Expert Committee for DNA Profiling constituted by the Department of Biotechnology in 2012 for the purpose of deliberating on and finalizing the draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and appreciates this opportunity. CIS respectively dissents from the January 2015 draft of the Bill.

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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 24) – Shantanu Ghosh

by Purba Sarkar

CIS interviews Shantanu Ghosh, Managing Director, Symantec Product Operations, India, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.

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Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age

by Geetha Hariharan and Jyoti Panday

The Centre for Internet & Society, the Observer Research Foundation, the Internet Policy Observatory, the Centre for Global Communication Studies and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania organized this conference on April 21, 2015 in New Delhi.

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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 22) - Anonymous

by Purba Sarkar

CIS interviews a Tibetan security researcher and information activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series. He prefers to remain anonymous.

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Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation

by Bhairav Acharya

This note summarises my panel contribution to the conference on Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age at New Delhi on 21 April 2015, which was organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Internet Policy Observatory of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

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Regulatory Perspectives on Net Neutrality

by Pranesh Prakash

In this paper Pranesh Prakash gives an overview on why India needs to put in place net neutrality regulations, and the form that those regulations must take to avoid being over-regulation.

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