Centre for Internet & Society

NTIA to give up control of the Internet's root

by Pranesh Prakash

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.

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Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 3: The Public/Private Distinction and the Supreme Court’s Wrong Turn

by Pranesh Prakash

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.

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Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?

by Nishant Shah

The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.

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UIDAI Practices and the Information Technology Act, Section 43A and Subsequent Rules

by Elonnai Hickok

UIDAI practices and section 43A of the IT Act are analyzed in this post.

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Big Democracy, Big Surveillance: India's Surveillance State

by Maria Xynou

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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