Internet Governance Blog
CIS and International Coalition Calls upon Governments to Protect Privacy
- September 25, 2013
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) along with the International Coalition has called upon governments across the globe to protect privacy.
Read more →The Central Monitoring System: Some Questions to be Raised in Parliament
- September 25, 2013
The following are some model questions to be raised in the Parliament regarding the lack of transparency in the central monitoring system.
Read more →The National Privacy Roundtable Meetings
- September 19, 2013
The Centre for Internet & Society ("CIS"), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ("FICCI"), the Data Security Council of India ("DSCI") and Privacy International are, in partnership, conducting a series of national privacy roundtable meetings across India from April to October 2013. The roundtable meetings are designed to discuss possible frameworks to privacy in India.
Read more →Transparency Reports — A Glance on What Google and Facebook Tell about Government Data Requests
- September 10, 2013
Transparency Reports are a step towards greater accountability but how efficacious are they really?
Read more →Privacy Law Must Fit the Bill
- September 10, 2013
The process of updating Indian privacy policy has gained momentum ever since the launch of the UID project and also the leak of the Radia tapes. The Department of Personnel and Training has lead the drafting of privacy bill for the last three years. This bill will ideally articulate privacy principles and establish the office of the privacy commissioner and most importantly have an over-riding effect over 50 odd existing laws, rules and policies with privacy implications.
Read more →An Interview with Suresh Ramasubramanian
- September 06, 2013
Suresh Ramasubramanian is the ICS Quality Representative - IBM SmartCloud at IBM. We from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted an interview on cybersecurity and issues in the Cloud.
Read more →Indian government to bar politicians from using Gmail for official business
- September 05, 2013
US-based email services seen as too risky.
Read more →Report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable Meeting, New Delhi
- August 30, 2013
In 2013 the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India. The following is a report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable held in New Delhi on August 24, 2013.
Read more →Out of the Bedroom
- September 06, 2013
We have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
Read more →Freedom from Monitoring: India Inc Should Push For Privacy Laws
- August 21, 2013
More surveillance than absolutely necessary actually undermines the security objective.
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