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NTIA to give up control of the Internet's root
- March 18, 2014
On Friday evening the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it was setting into motion a transition to give up a few powers that it holds over some core Internet functions, and that this would happen by September 2015. Pranesh Prakash provides a brief response to that announcement.
Read more →Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 3: The Public/Private Distinction and the Supreme Court’s Wrong Turn
- March 06, 2014
After its decision in Gobind, the Supreme Court's privacy floodgates opened; a series of claims involving private parties came before its docket, and the resulting jurisprudence ended up creating confusion between state-individual surveillance, and individual-individual surveillance.
Read more →Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?
- March 06, 2014
The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
Read more →UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent Rules
- March 06, 2014
UIDAI practices and section 43A of the IT Act are analyzed in this post.
Read more →Big Democracy, Big Surveillance: India's Surveillance State
- February 28, 2014
In India, surveillance is on the rise by the state to tackle crime and terrorism, and private companies are eager to meet the demand.
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