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What the government's draft IT intermediary guidelines say: by Admin — published Feb 13, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance
Intermediaries will have to hand over to government agencies any information within 72 hours. Intermediaries will have to use automated tools to trace the person posting unlawful content.
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‘Willing to participate, but need more time’: Twitter on parliamentary panel hearing: by Smriti Kak Ramachandran and Vidhi Choudhary — published Feb 15, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance
Executives from social media firm Twitter’s US headquarters will not appear before a parliamentary panel that has summoned them on Monday over perceived bias towards right-wing handles on the micro-blogging platform.
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2019 International Asia Conference: by Admin — published Feb 19, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability
ITECHLAW organized the 2019 edition of International Asia Conference at JW Marriott hotel in Bangalore on January 31, 2019 and February 1, 2019. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Policy Making for the Emerging Tech in India".
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
CIS Submission to UN High Level Panel on Digital Co-operation: by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arindrajit Basu and Elonnai Hickok — published Jan 30, 2019 — last modified Feb 19, 2019 01:41 AM — filed under: Privacy, Internet Governance, ICT
The High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation was convened by the UN Secretary-General to advance proposals to strengthen cooperation in the digital space among Governments, the private sector, civil society, international organizations, academia, the technical community and other relevant stakeholders. The Panel issued a call for input that called for responses to various questions. CIS responded to the call for inputs.
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CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights: by Elonnai Hickok, Arindrajit Basu, Gurshabad Grover, Akriti Bopanna, Shweta Mohandas, Martyna Kalvaityte — published Feb 20, 2019 — last modified Feb 20, 2019 10:48 AM — filed under: Human Rights, Internet Governance, Surveillance
CIS responded to the call for submissions from the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression. The submission was on the Surveillance Industry and Human Rights.
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Resurrecting the marketplace of ideas: by Arindrajit Basu — published Feb 22, 2019 — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Freedom, Internet Governance
There is no ‘silver bullet’ for regulating content on the web. It requires a mix of legal and empirical analysis.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops: by Saumyaa Naidu — published Feb 17, 2019 — last modified Feb 26, 2019 01:53 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance, Artificial Intelligence
Centre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
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Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South Asia: by Admin — published Feb 27, 2019 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
Internet Democracy Project and Point of View co-organized a two-day Imagine a Feminist Internet event in Sri Lanka on 22011 and 22 February 2019. Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data Problem? Unpacking ‘Dataveillance’ in India' which was co-authored by herself and Aayush Rathi.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Participation in the meeting of BIS LITD 17: by Admin — published Mar 03, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
Located in Internet Governance / News & Media
Risk integration is key to better cybersecurity management: by Dr. R. Seetharaman — published Mar 03, 2019 — filed under: Internet Governance
Digital connectivity plays an anchor role in unlocking innovation and prosperity around the world, but increasing cyber threat is a roadblock to collective path of progress.
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