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Is India’s website-blocking law constitutional? – I. Law & procedure
- December 11, 2014
Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, along with its corresponding Rules, set out the procedure for blocking of websites in India. Over two posts, Geetha Hariharan examines the constitutional validity of Section 69A and the Blocking Rules.
Read more →Revolving Door Analysis: IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group
- December 10, 2014
The IANA Stewardship Coordination Group (ICG) is the body that will accept and coordinate different proposals for IANA transition. It will make the global Internet community's final proposal for transition to the NTIA. Lakshmi Venkataraman finds that a majority of the ICG's membership have had longstanding affiliations with I-star organisations. What will this mean for IANA transition?
Read more →The Socratic debate: Whose internet is it anyway?
- December 09, 2014
In the US, President Obama recently spoke out on the seemingly arcane topic of net neutrality. What is more astounding is that the popular satire news show host John Oliver spent a 13-minute segment talking about it in June, telling Internet trolls to “focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction” by visiting the US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) website and submitting comments on its weak draft proposal on net neutrality.
Read more →ICANN reveals hitherto undisclosed details of domain names revenues
- December 08, 2014
Following requests from CIS, ICANN has shared a detailed list of its revenues from domain names for the fiscal year ending June 2014. Such level of detail has, until now, been unavailable. Historical data is still to be made available.
Read more →FY14 Customer Payments summary
- December 08, 2014
ICANN's FY14 domain name revenue summary
Read more →FY14 Customer Payments final version
- December 08, 2014
ICANN's detailed list of revenues from domain names
Read more →Introduction: About the Privacy and Surveillance Roundtables
- November 27, 2014
The Privacy and Surveillance Roundtables is a Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiative, in partnership with the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), as well as local partners. The Roundtable will be closed-door deliberation involving multiple stakeholders. Through the course of these discussions we aim to deliberate upon the current legal framework for surveillance in India, and discuss possible frameworks for surveillance in India.
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