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Report on the 2nd Privacy Round Table meeting

by Maria Xynou

This post entails a report on the second Privacy Round Table meeting which took place on 20th April 2013.

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Report on the 1st Privacy Round Table meeting

by Maria Xynou

This report entails an overview of the discussions and recommendations of the first Privacy Round Table meeting in New Delhi, on 13th April 2013.

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Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation

by Prasad Krishna

Prepared by Data Security Council of India.

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India's 'Big Brother': The Central Monitoring System (CMS)

by Maria Xynou

In this post, Maria Xynou looks at India´s Central Monitoring System (CMS) project and examines whether it can target individuals´ communications data, regardless of whether they are involved in illegal activity.

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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawld8tG9DBSA9T3oe2PDOw7j9Iosz2VaXg0 on India's Biometric Identification Programs and Privacy Concerns

by Daktre

Indeed you make a good case for proceeding with caution or haste with collecting "big data" and implementing national level biometric schemes due to data [...]

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WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward

by Pranesh Prakash

On February 27, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society conducted a workshop on the Working Group on Internet Governance report, titled "WGIG+8: Stock-Taking, Mapping, and Going Forward" at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) + 10 meeting at Fontenoy Building, conference room # 7, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris from 9.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.

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Comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Service Delivery) Rules, 2011

by Bhairav Acharya

Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Information Technology (Electronic Services Delivery) Rules, 2011. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha.

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Comments on the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011

by Bhairav Acharya

Bhairav Acharya on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society prepared the following comments on the Sensitive Personal Data Rules. These were submitted to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the 15th Lok Sabha.

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