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The seedy underbelly of revenge porn
- September 05, 2015
Intimate photos posted by angry exes are becoming part of an expanding online body of dirty work.
Read more →Data Flow in the Unique Identification Scheme of India
- September 03, 2015
This note analyses the data flow within the UID scheme and aims at highlighting vulnerabilities at each stage. The data flow within the UID Scheme can be best understood by first delineating the organizations involved in enrolling residents for Aadhaar. The UIDAI partners with various Registrars usually a department of the central or state Government, and some private sector agencies like LIC etc– through a Memorandum of Understanding for assisting with the enrollment process of the UID project.
Read more →CIS Comments and Recommendations to the Human DNA Profiling Bill, June 2015
- September 02, 2015
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted a clause-by-clause comments on the Human DNA Profiling Bill that was circulated by the Department of Biotechnology on June 9, 2015.
Read more →Are we Throwing our Data Protection Regimes under the Bus?
- September 02, 2015
In this blog post Rohan examines why the principle of consent is providing us increasingly less of an aegis in protecting our data.
Read more →Supreme Court Order is a Good Start, but is Seeding Necessary?
- September 02, 2015
This blog post seeks to unpack the ‘seeding’ process in the UIDAI scheme, understand the implications of the Supreme Court order on this process, and identify questions regarding the UID scheme that still need to be clarified by the court in the context of the seeding process.
Read more →Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group Analysis
- August 24, 2015
This analysis has been done to see the trend in the selection and rotation of the members of the Multistakeholder advisory group (MAG) in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The MAG has been functional for nine years from 2006-2015. The analysis is based on data procured, collated and organised by Pranesh Prakash and Jyoti Panday. Shambhavi Singh, Law Student, NLU Delhi who was interning with CIS at the time also assisted with the organisation and analysis of the data.
Read more →The Four Parts of Privacy in India
- August 23, 2015
Privacy enjoys an abundance of meanings. It is claimed in diverse situations every day by everyone against other people, society and the state.
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