Internet Governance Blog
Clearing Misconceptions: What the DoT Panel Report on Net Neutrality Says (and Doesn't)
- July 21, 2015
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.
Read more →Aadhaar Number vs the Social Security Number
- July 20, 2015
This blog calls out the differences between the Aadhaar Number and the Social Security Number
Read more →Privacy, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice: The Common Law Recognition of Homosexuality
- August 23, 2015
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.
Read more →A Dissent Note to the Expert Committee for DNA Profiling
- July 17, 2015
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.
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 24) – Shantanu Ghosh
- July 15, 2015
CIS interviews Shantanu Ghosh, Managing Director, Symantec Product Operations, India, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 23) – Justin Searle
- July 15, 2015
CIS interviews Justin Searle, security expert, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Read more →Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age
- July 14, 2015
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.
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 22) - Anonymous
- July 13, 2015
CIS interviews a Tibetan security researcher and information activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series. He prefers to remain anonymous.
Read more →Free Speech Policy in India: Community, Custom, Censorship, and the Future of Internet Regulation
- August 23, 2015
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
Read more →Regulatory Perspectives on Net Neutrality
- July 07, 2015
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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