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CIS Submission to TRAI Consultation on Free Data
- July 01, 2016
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) held a consultation on Free Data, for which CIS sent in the following comments.
Read more →Jurisdiction: The Taboo Topic at ICANN
- June 27, 2016
The "IANA Transition" that is currently underway is a sham since it doesn't address the most important question: that of jurisdiction. This article explores why the issue of jurisdiction is the most important question, and why it remains unaddressed.
Read more →List of Blocked 'Escort Service' Websites
- June 15, 2016
Here is the full list of URLs that Indian ISPs were asked to block on Monday, June 13, 2016.
Read more →Smart City Policies and Standards: Overview of Projects, Data Policies, and Standards across Five International Smart Cities
- June 08, 2016
This blog post aims to review five Smart Cities across the globe, namely Singapore, Dubai, New York City, London and Seoul, the Data Policies and Standards adopted. Also, the research seeks to point the similarities, differences and best practices in the development of smart cities across jurisdictions.
Read more →CIS's Comments on the Draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016
- June 05, 2016
The Centre for Internet and Society is alarmed by the Draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016, and has recommended that the proposed law be withdrawn in its entirety. It offered the following detailed comments as its submission.
Read more →The Digital is Political
- June 05, 2016
To speak of technology is to speak of human life and living.
Read more →A Large Byte of Your Life
- June 05, 2016
With the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering.
Read more →Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things Offline
- June 05, 2016
As governments use their power to erase what they do not approve of from the web, cloud storage will not be enough.
Read more →Facebook: A Platform with Little Less Sharing of Personal Information
- June 05, 2016
As Facebook becomes less personal, what happens to digital friendship?
Read more →Women's Safety? There is an App for That
- June 03, 2016
“After locking ourselves in a room for more than 6 days, this is what we came out [sic] with. Join us in helping make WOMEN feel SAFE,” read a gloating press release about a smartphone app for women to notify their near ones that they were in distress. It was one among many such PRs frequently landing in my mailbox after the rape and murder of a young student on board a private bus in Delhi in 2012.
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