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Adoption of Standards in Smart Cities - Way Forward for India: by Vanya Rakesh — published Mar 19, 2016 — last modified Apr 11, 2016 03:04 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Big Data, Open Data, Internet Governance, Smart Cities
With a paradigm shift towards the concept of “Smart Cities’ globally, as well as India, such cities have been defined by several international standardization bodies and countries, however, there is no uniform definition adopted globally. The glue that allows infrastructures to link and operate efficiently is standards as they make technologies interoperable and efficient.
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Flaws in the UIDAI Process: by Hans Varghese Mathews — published Mar 06, 2016 — last modified Mar 06, 2016 10:40 AM — filed under: UID, Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Aadhaar, Homepage
The accuracy of biometric identification depends on the chance of a false positive: the probability that the identifiers of two persons will match. Individuals whose identifiers match might be termed duplicands. When very many people are to be identified success can be measured by the (low) proportion of duplicands. The Government of India is engaged upon biometrically identifying the entire population of India. An experiment performed at an early stage of the programme has allowed us to estimate the chance of a false positive: and from that to estimate the proportion of duplicands. For the current population of 1.2 billion the expected proportion of duplicands is 1/121, a ratio which is far too high.
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A comparison of the 2016 Aadhaar Bill, and the 2010 NIDAI Bill: by Vanya Rakesh — published Mar 09, 2016 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, UID
This blog post does a clause-by-clause comparison of the provisions of National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 and the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016
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Personal Data Protection Bill must examine data collection practices that emerged during pandemic: by Shweta Mohandas and Anamika Kundu — published Mar 30, 2022 — filed under: Internet Governance, Data Protection, Privacy
The PDP bill is speculated to be introduced during the winter session of the parliament soon. The PDP Bill in its current form provides wide-ranging exemptions which allow government agencies to process citizen’s data in order to fulfil its responsibilities. The bill could ensure that employers have some responsibility towards the data they collect from the employees.
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Comments to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021: by Chiara Furtado, Aayush Rathi and Abhishek Sekharan — published Apr 01, 2022 — filed under: Motor Vehicle, Internet Governance, Privacy
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021 published by the Transport Department, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, (hereafter “draft Scheme”).
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Rethinking Acquisition of Digital Devices by Law Enforcement Agencies: by Harikartik Ramesh — published Apr 16, 2022 — last modified May 02, 2022 09:27 AM — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
This article has been selected as a part of The Right to Privacy and the Legality of Surveillance series organized in collaboration with the RGNUL Student Research Review (RSRR) Journal.
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The Gay Pride Charade: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 25, 2016 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
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One Pokémon to Rule Them All: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 25, 2016 — filed under: Internet Governance
America’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space.
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DIDP Request #10 - ICANN does not know how much each RIR contributes to its Budget: by Asvatha Babu — published Jul 27, 2016 — last modified Jul 27, 2016 02:57 PM — filed under: ICANN, DIDP, Internet Governance
In an effort to understand the relationship between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN, we requested current and historical information on the contract fees paid by the five RIRs (AfriNIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) to ICANN annually.
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DIDP Request #9 - Exactly how involved is ICANN in the NETmundial Initiative?: by Asvatha Babu — published Jul 27, 2016 — filed under: ICANN, DIDP, Internet Governance
The importance and relevance of knowing ICANN’s involvement in the NETmundial Initiative cannot be overstated.
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