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Transparency Reports — A Glance on What Google and Facebook Tell about Government Data Requests
- September 10, 2013
Transparency Reports are a step towards greater accountability but how efficacious are they really?
Read more →Privacy Law Must Fit the Bill
- September 10, 2013
The process of updating Indian privacy policy has gained momentum ever since the launch of the UID project and also the leak of the Radia tapes. The Department of Personnel and Training has lead the drafting of privacy bill for the last three years. This bill will ideally articulate privacy principles and establish the office of the privacy commissioner and most importantly have an over-riding effect over 50 odd existing laws, rules and policies with privacy implications.
Read more →An Interview with Suresh Ramasubramanian
- September 06, 2013
Suresh Ramasubramanian is the ICS Quality Representative - IBM SmartCloud at IBM. We from the Centre for Internet and Society conducted an interview on cybersecurity and issues in the Cloud.
Read more →Out of the Bedroom
- September 06, 2013
We have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
Read more →CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 10) - Lawrence Liang
- September 05, 2013
CIS interviews Lawrence Liang, researcher and lawyer, and co-founder of Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Read more →Report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable Meeting, New Delhi
- August 30, 2013
In 2013 the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) drafted the Privacy Protection Bill as a citizens' version of a privacy legislation for India. Since April 2013, CIS has been holding Privacy Roundtables in collaboration with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and DSCI, with the objective of gaining public feedback to the Privacy Protection Bill and other possible frameworks for privacy in India. The following is a report on the Sixth Privacy Roundtable held in New Delhi on August 24, 2013.
Read more →The Personal Data (Protection) Bill, 2013
- August 30, 2013
Below is the text of the Personal Data (Protection) Bill, 2013 as discussed at the 6th Privacy Roundtable, New Delhi held on 24 August 2013. Note: This version of the Bill caters only to the Personal Data regime. The surveillance and privacy of communications regime was not discussed at the 6th Privacy Roundtable.
Read more →Freedom from Monitoring: India Inc Should Push For Privacy Laws
- August 21, 2013
More surveillance than absolutely necessary actually undermines the security objective.
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