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Should Aadhaar be mandatory?
- December 18, 2017
This week, a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will adjudicate on limited questions of stay orders in the Aadhaar case. After numerous attempts by the petitioners in the Aadhaar case, the court has agreed to hear this matter, just shy of the looming deadline of December 31 for the linking of Aadhaar numbers to avail government services and benefits.
Read more →Artificial Intelligence - Literature Review
- December 16, 2017
With origins dating back to the 1950s Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not necessarily new. However, interest in AI has been rekindled over the last few years, in no small measure due to the rapid advancement of the technology and its applications to real- world scenarios. In order to create policy in the field, understanding the literature regarding existing legal and regulatory parameters is necessary. This Literature Review is the first in a series of reports that seeks to map the development of AI, both generally and in specific sectors, culminating in a stakeholder analysis and contributions to policy-making. This Review analyses literature on the historical development of the technology, its compositional makeup, sector- specific impacts and solutions and finally, overarching regulatory solutions.
Read more →AI and Healthcare in India: Looking Forward
- December 16, 2017
This Report provides an overview of the proceedings of the Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and healthcare in India: Looking Forward (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Roundtable’), conducted at The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), in Bangalore on November 30, 2017.
Read more →Breeding misinformation in virtual space
- December 08, 2017
A well-informed citizenry and institutions that provide good information are fundamental to a functional democracy.
Read more →GDPR and India: A Comparative Analysis
- November 28, 2017
At present, companies world over are in the process of assessing the impact that EU General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) will have on their businesses.
Read more →Counter Comments on TRAI's Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in Telecom Sector
- November 23, 2017
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) has commented on the Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in Telecom Sector published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on August 9, 2017.
Read more →Breach Notifications: A Step towards Cyber Security for Consumers and Citizens
- November 14, 2017
Through the Digital India project the Indian government is seeking to establish India as a digital nation at the forefront. Increasingly, this means having good cyber-security policies in place and enabling a prosperous business environment for companies that implement sound cyber-security policies. This paper will look at one such policy, which enables investments in cyber-security for IT products and services through giving consumers a way to hold business owners and public authorities to account when their security fails.
Read more →A Comparison of Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Cyber Security in India and the United Kingdom
- November 12, 2017
This report is the first part of a three part series of reports that compares the Indian cyber security framework with that of the U.K, U.S and Singapore.
Read more →Why Presumption of Renewal is Unsuitable for the Current Registry Market Structure
- October 29, 2017
With the recent and much protested renewal of the .net legacy Top-Level-Domain (TLD), the question of the appropriate method of renewal has again come to the forefront. While this seems relatively uncontroversial to most, Padma Venkataraman, a law student and intern at CIS looks at presumptive renewal through a critical lens.
Read more →CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANN
- October 28, 2017
CIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of transparency become a default approach within ICANN. Here, Padma Venkataraman chronologically maps CIS’ efforts at enhancing financial transparency and accountability at ICANN, while providing an outline of what remains to be done.
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