Centre for Internet & Society

GNI Assessment Finds ICT Companies Protect User Privacy and Freedom of Expression

by Elonnai Hickok

Elonnai Hickok analyses a public report recently published by GNI on the independent assessment process for Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. The report finds Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to be in compliance with the GNI principles on privacy and freedom of expression.

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Electoral Databases – Privacy and Security Concerns

by Snehashish Ghosh

In this blogpost, Snehashish Ghosh analyzes privacy and security concerns which have surfaced with the digitization, centralization and standardization of the electoral database and argues that even though the law provides the scope for protection of electoral databases, the State has not taken any steps to ensure its safety.

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Surveillance and the Indian Constitution - Part 1: Foundations

by Pranesh Prakash

In this insightful seven-part series, Gautam Bhatia looks at surveillance and the right to privacy in India from a constitutional perspective, tracing its genealogy through Supreme Court case law and compares it with the law in the USA.

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India's Identity Crisis

by Malavika Jayaram

Malavika Jayaram's article was published in 2013 Internet Monitor Annual Report: Reflections on the Digital World, published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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Internet Monitor

by Prasad Krishna

Malavika's piece on India's Identity Crisis is published in this report.

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Letter requesting public consultation on position of GoI at WGEC

by Snehashish Ghosh

Snehashish Ghosh on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society sent a letter to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, requesting for a public consultation on India's position at the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC).

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Big Brother is watching you

by Chinmayi Arun

India has no requirements of transparency whether in the form of disclosing the quantum of interception or in the form of notification to people whose communication was intercepted.

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by Maria Xynou

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Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India

by Maria Xynou

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.

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