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Consumer Care Society: Silver Jubilee Year Celebrations
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Arindrajit Basu
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published
Aug 27, 2018
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Internet Governance,
Privacy
Arindrajit Basu delivered a talk the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Consumer Care Society (CCS )on 'Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet.
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Consumer Privacy
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 13, 2012
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filed under:
Consumer Rights,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
This chapter will examine the present legal state of consumer privacy in India and seek to understand the gap between policy and implementation of policy. In doing so, it will look at what are the existing avenues for protection of consumer privacy in India, how is the definition of consumer privacy evolving through case law and public opinion, and what are the current challenges to consumer privacy in India. Traditionally speaking, and according to the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, in India, a consumer is a broad label for any person who buys goods or services with the intent of using them for non-commercial purposes. In the typical sense, when people think of themselves as being consumers, they think about transactions with a vendor through a physical exchange of money in a store or through an online exchange for a product or service. Certain services that consumers use put an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information into the hands of vendors.
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Consumer Privacy in e-Commerce
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Sahana Sarkar
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published
Jul 23, 2011
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last modified
Mar 28, 2012 04:53 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Looking at the larger picture of national security versus consumer privacy, Sahana Sarkar says that though consumer privacy is important in the world of digital technology, individuals must put aside some of their civil liberties when it comes to the question of national security, as it is necessary to prevent societal damage.
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Content Removal on Facebook — A Case of Privatised Censorship?
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Jessamine Mathew
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Jun 16, 2014
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filed under:
Facebook,
Internet Governance,
Censorship,
Privacy
Any activity on Facebook, be it creating an account, posting a picture or status update or creating a group or page, is bound by Facebook’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. These contain a list of content that is prohibited from being published on Facebook which ranges from hate speech to pornography to violation of privacy.
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Content takedown and users' rights
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Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover
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published
Feb 14, 2020
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last modified
Feb 17, 2020 05:18 AM
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filed under:
Internet Freedom,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
After Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable debate around how the judgement has changed this regime: specifically about (i) whether originators of content are entitled to a hearing, (ii) whether Rule 16 of the Blocking Rules, which mandates confidentiality of content takedown requests received by intermediaries from the Government, continues to be operative, and (iii) the effect of Rule 16 on the rights of the originator and the public to challenge executive action. In this opinion piece, we attempt to answer some of these questions.
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Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Oct 14, 2015
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Economy,
Public Accountability,
Privacy,
Platform Responsibility,
Data Protection,
Accountability,
Digital Security,
Digital India,
Internet Governance
The European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
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Control shift?
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by
Radha Rao
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published
Nov 11, 2009
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 02:35 PM
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Internet Governance
USA might have ceded the control of the Internet, but only partially - An article by Pranesh Prakash in Down to Earth (Issue: Nov 15th ,2009)
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Control Shift?
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Oct 08, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM
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filed under:
ICANN,
Internet Governance
The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)
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Cookies, not the monster you may think
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by
Sweta Akundi
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published
Apr 12, 2019
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Follow the crumbs to a better understanding of data protection and privacy.
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Cool Jobs | Parmesh Shahani, Head, Godrej India Culture Lab
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 04, 2013
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last modified
Jan 17, 2013 05:55 AM
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Internet Governance
The man behind Mumbai’s most original ideas space on being a cross-pollinator
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