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Guest post: Before cyber norms, let’s talk about disanalogy and disintermediation
- November 15, 2019
In a guest post in relation to CIS’s recently held roundtable onIndia’s cyber defense strategy, Pukhraj Singh looks at the critical fissures – at the technical and policy levels – in global normative efforts to secure cyberspace. By charting out the key vectors and power asymmetries among key stakeholders – both leading state actors and private actors like Microsoft – Singh posits that there is much to be done before we circumscribe cyber operations within legal strictures.
Read more →India’s Role in Global Cyber Policy Formulation
- November 13, 2019
The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues—including intermediary liability, data localization and e-commerce—the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulting in battle lines being drawn by governments, industry and civil society actors both in India and across the globe.
Read more →Event Report: Consultation on Draft Information Technology (Fintech Security Standards) Rules
- November 12, 2019
The Centre for Internet and Society is in the process of drafting certain data security standards for Fintech entities. As part of the process of drafting, a consultation roundtable was organized to get inputs from industry executives, lawyers and policy experts working in this field.
Read more →Reliance Jio is using SNI inspection to block websites
- November 07, 2019
Reliance Jio, the most popular ISP in India, is employing a deep packet inspection technique to block websites for its users.
Read more →CIS’ Comments to the Christchurch Call
- November 02, 2019
In the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron co-chaired the Christchurch Call to Action in May 2018 to “bring together countries and tech companies in an attempt to bring to an end the ability to use social media to organise and promote terrorism and violent extremism.”
Read more →Through the looking glass: Analysing transparency reports
- October 30, 2019
An analysis of companies' transparency reports for government requests for user data and content removal
Read more →Department of Labour Interaction Program: Online Business Platforms
- October 29, 2019
The Department of Labour convened an interaction program of sorts at Vikas Soudha in Bangalore on 21st October, 2019 to hear the issues plaguing the emergent gig economy.
Read more →Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and Privacy
- October 27, 2019
This submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics’. It was prepared by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, and Pallavi Bedi in response to a report of consultation by a thematic taskforce established by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy on ‘Privacy and Personality’ (hereafter, HRC Gender Report).
Read more →Comments to the Code on Social Security, 2019
- October 27, 2019
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet & Society, India (CIS) to the draft Code on Social Security, 2019 (hereinafter “ Draft Code ”) prepared by the Government of India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Read more →“Politics by other means”: Fostering positive contestation and charting ‘red lines’ through global governance in cyberspace
- October 20, 2019
The past year has been a busy one for the fermentation of global governance efforts in cyberspace with multiple actors-states, industry, and civil society spearheading a variety of initiatives. Given the multiplicity of actors, ideologies, and vested interests at play in this ecosystem, any governance initiative will be, by default, political, and desirably so.
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