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SCOSTA and UID Comparison not Valid, says Finance Committee
- October 14, 2011
The Standing Committee on Finance Branch, Lok Sabha Secretariat has responded to the suggestions offered by CIS on the National Identification Authority of India, Bill 2010 and has requested it to mail its views by 14 October 2011.
Read more →Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee: A Note on the Deduplication of Unique Identifiers
- October 12, 2011
Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had sent in a Right to Information application on 30 June 2011 to Ashish Kumar, Central Public Information Officer, UIDAI. The UIDAI sent in its reply. Through the seventh open letter, Hans attempts to characterize in an abstract way the replies that CIS managed to elicit and makes some elementary observations.
Read more →My Experiment with Scam Baiting
- October 01, 2011
Shahana, your experiments with spam baiting made for an intriguing read. I have always been tempted to 'investigate' the nexus between legitimate manufacturing / service [...]
Read more →UID: Questions without Answers – A Talk by Usha Ramanathan
- September 26, 2011
UID enrolment is in full swing, providing an official identification to millions of Indians, yet there are numerous unanswered questions. A public talk on UID was held at the Institute of Science, Bangalore on September 6, 2011. Usha Ramanathan, an independent law researcher on jurisprudence, poverty and rights, discussed the questions that plague the UID project and the veil of silence enveloping the answers.
Read more →Whole Body Imaging and Privacy Concerns that Follow
- August 22, 2011
Law student at the National University of Juridical Sciences, and intern for Privacy India, Srishti Goyal compares, contrasts, and critiques the Whole Body Imaging practices found in the US, the UK, and Australia, and makes recommendations for an Indian regime.
Read more →CCTV in Universities
- August 10, 2011
Basic Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Infrastructure is used to observe movements from a central room, and consists of one or more video cameras that transmit video and audio images to a set of monitors or video recorders.
Read more →Re-thinking Key Escrow
- August 09, 2011
Would you make duplicates of your house keys and hand them over to the local police authority? And if so, would you feel safe? Naturally, one would protest this invasion of privacy. Similarly, would it be justified for the government to have a copy of the private key to intercept and decrypt communications? This is the idea behind key escrow; it enables government ‘wiretapping’.
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