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Facebook Free Basics: Gatekeeping Powers Extend to Manipulating Public Discourse
- January 09, 2016
15 million people have come online through Free Basics, Facebook's zero rated walled garden, in the past year. "If we accept that everyone deserves access to the internet, then we must surely support free basic internet services. Who could possibly be against this?" asks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in a recent op-ed defending Free Basics.
Read more →Ground Zero Summit
- January 03, 2016
The Ground Zero Summit which claims to be the largest collaborative platform in Asia for cyber-security was held in New Delhi from 5th to 8th November. The conference was organised by the Indian Infosec Consortium (IIC), a not for profit organisation backed by the Government of India. Cyber security experts, hackers, senior officials from the government and defence establishments, senior professionals from the industry and policymakers attended the event.
Read more →Free Basics: Negating net parity
- January 03, 2016
Researchers funded by Facebook were apparently told by 92 per cent of Indians they surveyed from large cities, with Internet connection and college degree, that the Internet “is a human right and that Free Basics can help bring Internet to all of India.” What a strange way to frame the question given that the Internet is not a human right in most jurisdictions.
Read more →Eight Key Privacy Events in India in the Year 2015
- January 03, 2016
As the year draws to a close, we are enumerating some of the key privacy related events in India that transpired in 2015. Much like the last few years, this year, too, was an eventful one in the context of privacy.
Read more →Benefits and Harms of "Big Data"
- December 30, 2015
Today the quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life.
Read more →RTI response regarding the UIDAI
- December 22, 2015
This is a response to the RTI filed regarding UIDAI
Read more →ISO/IEC/ JTC 1/SC 27 Working Groups Meeting, Jaipur
- December 21, 2015
I attended this event held from October 26 to 30, 2015 in Jaipur.
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