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Benefits and Harms of "Big Data": by Scott Mason — published Dec 30, 2015 — filed under: Internet Governance, Big Data
Today the quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life.
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Benefits, Harms, Rights and Regulation: A Survey of Literature on Big Data: by Amber Sinha, Vanya Rakesh, Vidushi Marda and Geethanjali Jujjavarapu — published Mar 23, 2017 — filed under: Internet Governance, Big Data
This survey draws upon a range of literature including news articles, academic articles, and presentations and seeks to disaggregate the potential benefits and harms of big data, organising them into several broad categories that reflect the existing scholarly literature. The survey also recognises the non-technical big data regulatory options which are in place as well as those which have been proposed by various governments, civil society groups and academics.
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Bengaluru cops' twitter handle in ethical storm: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 07, 2017 — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance, Privacy
The city's privacy activists are among the most strident in trying to prevent the Union government from gaining unprecedented access to citizens' personal information through Aadhaar. But in their own backyard, Bengaluru police have been publishing on Twitter the phone numbers of thousands of citizens reporting various crimes such as gambling on the streets, random quarrels and harassment of women.
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Bengaluru gives data safety tips to panel: by Admin — published Jan 16, 2018 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
A crucial consultation ahead of the framing of the country's data protection laws witnessed animated discussions here on Saturday.
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Best Bits 2012: by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 06, 2012 — last modified Dec 06, 2012 06:46 AM — filed under: Internet Governance Forum, Internet Governance
Best Bits organized a workshop at the IGF. It was held on November 3 and 4, 2012. Pranesh Prakash and Elonnai Hickok participated in the event.
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Best Practices Meet: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 08, 2014 — last modified Aug 06, 2014 06:25 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The Best Practices Meet 2014 is being organized by DSCI at Hotel Leela Palace on July 9, 2014. Sunil Abraham will participate as a panelist at the event.
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Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 04, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance
This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
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Beyond Access as Inclusion: by Anja Kovacs — published Aug 31, 2010 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:29 AM — filed under: Development, Digital Access, Internet Governance, human rights
On 13 September, the day before the fifth Internet Governance Forum opens, CIS is coorganising in Vilnius a meeting on Internet governance and human rights. One of the main aims of this meeting is to call attention to the crucial, yet in Internet governance often neglected, indivisibility of rights. In this blog post, Anja Kovacs uses this lens to illustrate how it can broaden as well reinvigorate our understanding of what remains one of the most pressing issues in Internet governance in developing countries to this day: that of access to the Internet.
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Beyond Anonymous: Shit people say on Internet piracy: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 13, 2012 — filed under: Video, Internet Governance
This post is a series of provocations around piracy, censorship and the state of Internet in India. Like all good tasting things, these observations need to be taken with a pinch of salt. But it is the hope of the author that this serves as a response to otherwise very persistent voices that have been demonizing file-sharing online.
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Beyond Clicktivism: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 18, 2011 — last modified Apr 20, 2011 04:33 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Moral support Hazare has in plenty. Count the missed calls, writes Debarshi Dasgupta in this article published in the Outlook on April 18, 2011.
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