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State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp: Summary

by Elonnai Hickok

• January 04, 2013

• Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS

On December 13 and 14, 2012, the Electronic Frontier Foundation organized the Surveillance and Human Rights Camp held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The meeting examined trends in surveillance, reasons for state surveillance, surveillance tactics that governments are using, and safeguards that can be put in place to protect against unlawful or disproportionate surveillance.

Tomorrow, Today

by Nishant Shah

• January 02, 2013

• Internet Governance

Our present is the future that our past had imagined. Around the same time last year, I remember taking stock of the technologies that we live with and wondering what 2012 would bring in.

The Worldwide Web of Concerns

by Pranesh Prakash

• December 27, 2012

• WCIT, ITU, Internet Governance

The Intern­ati­onal Telec­om­munication Union’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is currently under way in Dubai, after a gap of 25 years. At this conference, the Inter-national Teleco­mmunication Regulations — a binding treaty containing high-level principles — are to be revised.

Internet-driven Developments — Structural Changes and Tipping Points

by Elonnai Hickok

• December 24, 2012

• Internet Governance, Privacy

A symposium on Internet Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University from December 6 to 8, 2012. The symposium was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation and was hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In this blog post, I summarize the discussions that took place over the two days and add my own personal reflections on the issues.

Presentation on MLATS

by Prasad Krishna

• December 21, 2012

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkzFK2yxlxM_CLzYcCHV_9vXKf1DFITKxQ on RTI Applications on Blocking of Websites

by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkzFK2yxlxM_CLzYcCHV_9vXKf1DFITKxQ

• December 21, 2012

• Freedom of Speech and Expression, IT Act, RTI, Public Accountability

Hi, Old post but I was wondering if you managed to get any response on this RTI application. I am facing a similar problem. Regards [...]

The Trouble with Hurried Solutions

by Chinmayi Arun

• December 20, 2012

• WCIT, ITU, Internet Governance

The World Conference on International Telecommunication showed that countries are not yet ready to arrive at a consensus on regulation and control of the Internet

The Worldwide Web of Concerns

by Pranesh Prakash

• December 10, 2012

• WCIT, ITU, Internet Governance

The threat of a ‘UN takeover’ of the Internet through the WCIT is non-existent. However, that does not mean that activists have been crying themselves hoarse in vain.

So Much to Lose

by Nishant Shah

• December 07, 2012

• Social Media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have been a witness to the maelstrom of events that accompanied the death of the political leader Bal Thackeray.

Indian Government's Submission to ITU

by Pranesh Prakash

• December 07, 2012

• WCIT, ITU, Internet Governance

The following is the text of the submission made by the Government of India to the World Conference of International Telecommunications, Dubai on November 3, 2012. This is the final version of a draft that was circulated earlier.