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Court’s approval needed to tap phones: Panel
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 22, 2012
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Investigators can monitor a person for 15-20 days on executive orders in case of emergencies, suggests panel.
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CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors?
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by
Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi
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published
Jul 04, 2023
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
Recent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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CPDP (Computers, Privacy and Data Protection) 2017
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 26, 2017
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last modified
Feb 03, 2017 02:02 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Amber Sinha participated as a panelist in a panel on 'EU Adequacy Status for International Data Transfers' in Brussels, Belgium on January 26, 2017. The event was organized by Privacy International.
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CPDP 2014 Reforming Data Protection: The Global Perspective
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 10, 2013
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last modified
Dec 11, 2013 03:39 AM
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filed under:
Event,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Already in its 7th edition, the annual Computer Privacy and Data Protection conference (organised by CPDP) is being held in Brussels from January 22 to 24, 2014. Malavika Jayaram will be speaking at this event.
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CPDP 2015
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 30, 2014
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The eighth international conference on computers, privacy and data protection will be held in Brussels from January 21 to 23, 2015. The Centre for Internet and Society is a moral supporter of CPDP.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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CPRsouth 2016 – Young Scholars Programme
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 30, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Big Data
Rohini Lakshané, Amber Sinha and Vidushi Marda have been selected to attend the two-day Young Scholars' Programme to be held in Zanzibar, Tanzania in early September this year. The programme is a part of the CPRSouth conference.
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News & Media
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Creeped out by Netflix's 'You'? Here's how you can avoid online stalkers, data thieves
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by
Admin
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published
Jan 12, 2019
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Several social media users have no idea of how much of their information is stored on the Internet and what kind of information they are allowing the applications to access.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Criminal Defamation and the Supreme Court’s Loss of Reputation
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by
Bhairav Acharya
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published
Jun 03, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Supreme Court’s refusal, in Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, to strike down the anachronistic colonial offence of criminal defamation is wrong. Criminalising defamation serves no legitimate public purpose; the vehicle of criminalisation – sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) – is unconstitutional; and the court’s reasoning is woolly at best.
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Blog
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Criminal Defamation: The Urgent Cause That has United Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal and Subramanian Swamy
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 16, 2015
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Chilling Effect,
Censorship
Three years ago when the then Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and his mother of misappropriation of funds while trying to revive the National Herald newspaper, the Nehru-Gandhi scion threatened to sue him.
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News & Media
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Crisis for identity or identity crisis?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 24, 2010
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last modified
Apr 02, 2011 08:16 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
The hurry with which the government is pushing its most ambitious project to assign a number (UID) to every citizen without any feasibility study or public debate has raised many questions.
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