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Surveillance Camp IV: Disproportionate State Surveillance - A Violation of Privacy
- February 19, 2013
This is the fourth in a series of posts mapping global surveillance challenges discussed at EFF's State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This article has been co-written with Elonnai Hickok — Centre for Internet and Society India, and a speaker at EFF's Camp.
Read more →The Omnishambles of UID, shrouded in its RTI opacity
- February 19, 2013
The Centre for Internet & Society sponsored Colonel Mathew Thomas to hold a workshop at the fourth National Right to Information (RTI) organized by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information, held in Hyderabad from February 15 to 18, 2013.
Read more →Freedom of Expression Gagged
- February 18, 2013
The use of law to bully people into silence, called ‘heckler’s veto’, is not unique to India, writes Chinmayi Arun in this op-ed published in Business Line on February 15, 2013.
Read more →Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked URLs by Department of Telecommunications (IIPM Edition)
- February 16, 2013
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in its order dated February 14, 2013 has issued directions to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block seventy eight URLs. The block order has been issued as a result of a court order. Snehashish Ghosh does a preliminary analysis of the list of websites blocked as per the DoT order.
Read more →https://me.yahoo.com/a/CnpbQphtlNtoH7iv1iF4QCu99yCa9gNTxJ5oOHWzGRU-#c105d on Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
- February 01, 2013
Living in India sometimes feels like living in a giant cage… at least from an journalist point-of-view… man do I feel home-sick sometimes… anyway I [...]
Read more →A Comparison of Indian Legislation to Draft International Principles on Surveillance of Communications
- January 31, 2013
This blog post is a comparison of the relevant Indian legislations allowing governmental access to communications and the Draft International Principles on Surveillance of Communications. The principles, first drafted in October 2012 and developed subsequently seeks to establish an international standard for surveillance of communications in the context of human rights.
Read more →RTI Application Reply
- January 30, 2013
Reply by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, dated January 15, 2013.
Read more →Data Retention in India
- January 29, 2013
As part of its privacy research, the Centre for Internet and Society has been researching upon data retention mandates from the Government of India and data retention practices by service providers. Globally, data retention has become a contested practice with regards to privacy, as many governments require service providers to retain more data for extensive time periods, for security purposes. Many argue that the scope of the retention is becoming disproportional to the purpose of investigating crimes.
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