Internet Governance Blog
Big Brother is watching you
- January 06, 2014
India has no requirements of transparency whether in the form of disclosing the quantum of interception or in the form of notification to people whose communication was intercepted.
Read more →India's Identity Crisis
- January 09, 2014
Malavika Jayaram's article was published in 2013 Internet Monitor Annual Report: Reflections on the Digital World, published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 13) - Pranesh Prakash
- January 07, 2014
CIS interviews Pranesh Prakash, lawyer and policy director with Centre for Internet and Society, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Read more →Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India
- December 18, 2013
Electronics Today organised a series of expos on smart cards, e-security, RFID and biometric technology in Delhi on 16-18 October 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is sharing the brochures it collected from these public expos for research purposes.
Read more →I Just Pinged to Say Hello
- November 30, 2013
A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
Read more →CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.
- November 30, 2013
The United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
Read more →Seventh Privacy Round-table
- November 18, 2013
On October 19, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Data Security Council of India, and Privacy International held a “Privacy Round-table” in New Delhi at the FICCI Federation House.
Read more →Why 'Facebook' is More Dangerous than the Government Spying on You
- November 19, 2013
In this article, Maria Xynou looks at state and corporate surveillance in India and analyzes why our "choice" to hand over our personal data can potentially be more harmful than traditional, top-down, state surveillance. Read this article and perhaps reconsider your "choice" to use social networking sites, such as Facebook.
Read more →First Look: CIS Cybersecurity documentary film
- November 18, 2013
CIS presents the trailer of its documentary film DesiSec: Cybersecurity & Civil Society in India
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 12) - Namita Malhotra
- November 15, 2013
CIS interviews Namita Malhotra, researcher and lawyer at Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
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