Internet Governance Blog
How Function Of State May Limit Informed Consent: Examining Clause 12 Of The Data Protection Bill
- March 01, 2022
The collective implication of leaving out ‘proportionality’ from Clause 12 is to provide very wide discretionary powers to the state.
Read more →CIS Comments and Recommendations on the Data Protection Bill, 2021
- February 14, 2022
This document is a revised version of the comments we provided on the 2019 Bill on 20 February 2020, with updates based on the amendments in the 2021 Bill.
Read more →Notes for India as the digital trade juggernaut rolls on
- February 09, 2022
Sitting out trade negotiations could result in the country losing out on opportunities to shape the rules.
Read more →Submission to the Facebook Oversight Board: Policy on Cross-checks
- February 07, 2022
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board on a policy consultation.
Read more →Launching CIS’s Flagship Report on Private Crypto-Assets
- December 06, 2021
The Centre for Internet & Society is launching its flagship report on regulating private crypto-assets in India, as part of its newly formed Financial Technology (or Fintech) research agenda. The event will be held on Zoom, at 17:30 IST on Wednesday, 15th December, 2021
Read more →Facial Recognition Technology in India
- September 02, 2021
The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology. Authors, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha, examine technological tools such as CCTV and FRT which are increasingly being deployed by the government.
Read more →Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19
- August 10, 2021
The Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the limitations of the government’s vaccination platform Co-WIN need to be analysed.
Read more →Finding Needles in Haystacks - Discussing the Role of Automated Filtering in the New Indian Intermediary Liability Rules
- August 03, 2021
On the 25th of February this year The Government of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The new Rules broaden the scope of which entities can be considered as intermediaries to now include curated-content platforms (Netflix) as well as digital news publications. This blogpost analyzes the rule on automated filtering, in the context of the growing use of automated content moderation.
Read more →The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End Encryption
- July 12, 2021
A legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
Read more →State of Consumer Digital Security in India
- July 05, 2021
This report attempts to identify the existing state of digital safety in India, with a mapping of digital threats, which will aid stakeholders in identifying and addressing digital security problems in the country. This project was funded by the Asia Foundation.
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