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Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India
- December 18, 2013
Electronics Today organised a series of expos on smart cards, e-security, RFID and biometric technology in Delhi on 16-18 October 2013. The Centre for Internet and Society is sharing the brochures it collected from these public expos for research purposes.
Read more →Misuse of Surveillance Powers in India (Case 1)
- December 06, 2013
In this series of blog posts, Pranesh Prakash looks at a brief history of misuse of surveillance powers in India. He notes that the government's surveillance powers have been freqently misused, very often without any kind of judicial or political redressal. This, he argues, should lead us as concerned citizens to demand a scaling down of the government's surveillance powers and pass laws to put it place more robust oversight mechanisms.
Read more →I Just Pinged to Say Hello
- November 30, 2013
A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
Read more →Open Secrets
- November 30, 2013
We need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
Read more →CIS Supports the UN Resolution on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital age”.
- November 30, 2013
The United Nations adopted the resolution on the right to privacy recently. It recognised privacy as a human right, integral to the right to free expression, and also declared that mass surveillance could have negative impacts on human rights.
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