Posts
The Age of Shame
- April 04, 2014
The ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where netizens half-jokingly, self-referentially, in a spirit of part-truth, part-exaggeration, often wonder on what the real reason is for the internet to exist.
Read more →Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy
- April 04, 2014
This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
Read more →Intermediary Liability Resources
- April 03, 2014
We bring you a list of intermediary resources as part of research on internet governance. This blog post will be updated on an ongoing basis.
Read more →Marco Civil da Internet: Brazil’s ‘Internet Constitution’
- April 03, 2014
On March 25, 2014, Brazil's lower house of parliament passed bill no. 2126/2011, popularly known as Marco Civil da Internet. The Marco Civil is a charter of Internet user-rights and service provider responsibilities, committed to freedom of speech and expression, privacy, and accessibility and openness of the Internet. In this post, the author looks at the pros and cons of the bill.
Read more →Surveillance and Privacy
- April 03, 2014
Presented by Sunil Abraham at LirneAsia event on March 9, 2014 in Gurgaon.
Read more →Leaked Privacy Bill: 2014 vs. 2011
- April 01, 2014
The Centre for Internet and Society has recently received a leaked version of the draft Privacy Bill 2014 that the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has drafted.
Read more →India's Internet Jam
- March 20, 2014
As authorities continue to clamp down on digital freedom, politicians and corporations are getting a taste for censorship too. Pranesh Prakash reports.
Read more →Privacy worries cloud Facebook's WhatsApp Deal
- March 20, 2014
Privacy activists in the United States have asked the competition regulator or the Federal Trade Commission to put on hold Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. Why have they done this when Facebook has promised to leave WhatsApp untouched as a standalone app?
Read more →New Standard Operating Procedures for Lawful Interception and Monitoring
- March 20, 2014
Government issues new guidelines to TSP’s to assist Lawful Interception and Monitoring.
Read more →Net Neutrality and Privacy
- March 20, 2014
The highly contentious and polarising debate on net-neutrality will have a large impact on shaping the future of the internet and ultimately on the users of the internet. One important issue which needs to be prioritized while debating the necessity or desirability of a legal regime which advocates net-neutrality is its implication on privacy.
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