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Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics
Amber Sinha was one of the stakeholders who provided inputs to the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics in June 2018 during their visit to New Delhi. The Expert Group has prepared and submitted its final report.
Are Chinese video apps violating the Indian law?
The apps have benefited mightily from the short-video craze that’s taken hold among preteens and adolescents but this is putting them in danger from predators, experts said.
Internet Freedom at Crossroads - Common Paths towards Strengthening Human Rights Online
The 2018 Freedom Online Conference took place from 28 to 30 November 2018 in Berlin. Elonnai Hickok participated as a speaker.
Informational Privacy in India: An Emerging Discourse
Centre for Policy Research supported by Omidyar Network organized this event in New Delhi on November 29, 2018. Amber Sinha was a speaker on the first panel on privacy and its tradeoffs.
Open Street Maps help tackle disasters: Experts
Speakers showed how participatory maps were used to bring to light lapses in delivery of civic services.
Are connected tech toys too smart for their own good?
Despite their merits, connected toys raise a few concerns about data privacy and security.
DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet
Gurshabad Grover and Karan Saini attended the DSCI Bangalore Chapter meet held in Bangalore at 10K NASSCOM Startup Warehouse on November 22, 2018.
Girls' schools, women's PGs: The shocking results when you Google 'bitches near me'
Considering the monopoly and clout that Google enjoys, it must be held accountable for promoting such stereotypes and values, experts say.
Amazon launches Machine Learning-based platform for healthcare space
Amazon’s Comprehend Medical platform uses a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service to process unstructured medical text and information such as dosages, symptoms and signs, and patient diagnosis.
Speculative Futures Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Media, Entertainment, and Gaming
Pranav Manjesh Bidare attended the event organised by Quicksand between November 16 and 18, 2018 in Bangalore as a panelist.
Briefing on BBC News pan-India research on how 'fake news' / digital misinformation spreads
Amber Sinha participated in a special private briefing on the BBC's pan India research on how misinformation spreads. The briefing was conducted on November 16, 2018 in New Delhi.
Building a Community of Practice: Reflections from 2nd All Partners
On Wednesday, November 14th, the Partnership on AI held its 2nd annual All Partners Meeting in San Francisco, California. Representatives from our 80+ member organizations – for-profit companies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and advocacy groups – traveled from across the globe to reflect on 2018 progress, and to plan for the future.
Roundtable on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2018
Akriti Bopanna and Ambika Tandon conducted a panel on 'Gender and Intermediary Liability' at the Digital Citizen Summit, hosted by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, on November 1, 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Human rights review of the verification code extension for EPP
On September 20, 2018 Gurshabad Grover sent a review of the human rights considerations in the Internet Draft, 'Verification Code Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-verificationcode-04), which is a document adopted by the Registration Protocols Extensions (regext) Working Group at the IETF.
Connections 2018
Gurshabad Grover attended Connections 2018, a pre-IETF event organised by the India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) in Bangalore on October 31 and November 1, 2018.
Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governance
Sunil Abraham gave a talk at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore on October 16, 2018. Sunil used a series of stories to explain how surveillance works and fails in the context of theft, murder, insider trading, terrorism, demonetization and encounter killings.
Participation in the meetings of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques'
From 30 September 2018 to 4 October 2018, Gurshabad Grover participated in the meetings of the working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 'IT Security techniques' held in Gjøvik, Norway. The meetings were organized by Standards Norway with support from NTNU, Microsoft, Telenor, et.al.
Technology Foresight Group Tandem Research's AI policy lab on the theme AI and Environment
Shweta Mohandas attended a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence and environment held at Tandem Research's office in Goa on October 5, 2018. She also made the framing intervention for the first session by addressing the question - What are the likely ethical conundrums, and plausible unintended consequences of the use of AI for sustainability?
Smart City Standardization - ICT Perspective
An event on Smart City standardization – ICT Perspective was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards in Bangalore on October 30, 2018. Gurshabad Grover attended the event.
Reliance-Jio Users Complain Of Porn Websites Being Blocked; Company Yet To Issue Official Statement
Going by a lot of Jio network users, it seems that Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has banned hundreds of porn sites, in compliance with the order of the Department of Telecommunications.
