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Submission on India's Draft Comments on Proposed Changes to the ITU's ITRs
- December 06, 2012
Given below are the responses from the representatives of civil society in India (The Society for Knowledge Commons, Centre for Internet & Society, The Delhi Science Forum, Free Software Movement of India, Internet Democracy Project and Media for Change) to the Government of India's proposals for the upcoming WCIT meeting, in December 2012, in Dubai.
Read more →Statement of Civil Society Members and Groups Participating in the "Best Bits" pre-IGF meeting at Baku in 2012
- December 06, 2012
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories for this submission made to the ITU on November 16, 2012.
Read more →Submission by Indian Civil Society Organisations on Proposals for the Future ITRs and Related Processes
- December 06, 2012
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the signatories of this submission which was sent in November 2012, in response to the International Telecommunication Union's call for public comments in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai from December 3 to 14, 2012.
Read more →Online Censorship: How Government should Approach Regulation of Speech
- December 05, 2012
Why is there a constant brouhaha in India about online censorship? What must be done to address this?
Read more →Comments on the Proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 Concerning Radio Frequency Identification Tags
- December 04, 2012
The Centre for Internet & Society gave its comments on the proposed Rule 138A of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989. The comments were made in response to Notification GSR 738(E) published in the Gazette of India on October 3, 2012.
Read more →Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000: Cases
- December 03, 2012
In this blog post Snehashish Ghosh summarizes the facts of a few cases where Section 66-A, Information Technology Act, 2000, has been mentioned or discussed.
Read more →Transcripts from WCIT-12
- December 03, 2012
We are archiving copies of the live-transcripts from the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT-12) which is being held in Dubai from 3–14 December, 2012.
Read more →Draft nonsense
- December 03, 2012
Seriously flawed and dodgily drafted provisions in the IT Act provide the state a stick to beat its citizens with.
Read more →Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act
- November 30, 2012
Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act criminalizes “causing annoyance or inconvenience” online, among other things. A conviction for such an offence can attract a prison sentence of as many as three years.
Read more →https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnHWnVLGu9WGeVjTK43G6bbwCjvcOKTnoo on Breaking Down Section 66A of the IT Act
- November 29, 2012
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