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Facial Recognition Technology in India
- September 02, 2021
The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) have jointly published a research paper on facial recognition technology. Authors, Elonnai Hickok, Pallavi Bedi, Aman Nair and Amber Sinha, examine technological tools such as CCTV and FRT which are increasingly being deployed by the government.
Read more →Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19
- August 10, 2021
The Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the limitations of the government’s vaccination platform Co-WIN need to be analysed.
Read more →Finding Needles in Haystacks - Discussing the Role of Automated Filtering in the New Indian Intermediary Liability Rules
- August 03, 2021
On the 25th of February this year The Government of India notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The new Rules broaden the scope of which entities can be considered as intermediaries to now include curated-content platforms (Netflix) as well as digital news publications. This blogpost analyzes the rule on automated filtering, in the context of the growing use of automated content moderation.
Read more →Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine Certificates
- August 03, 2021
We examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
Read more →Comments on proposed amendments to the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020
- July 27, 2021
CIS Seminar Series: Information Disorder
- July 23, 2021
The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South.
Read more →Health IDs: Voluntary or Mandatory?
- July 22, 2021
On August 15, 2020, the prime minister launched the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) with the objective of improving and streamlining the Indian healthcare system. In December 2020, the Central Government, notified the National Digital Health Mission: Health Data Management Policy (Health Data Policy) seeking to create a digital health ecosystem under the NDHM. A core pillar of the Health Data Policy is to create a unique health identity (UHID) for every Indian citizen.
Read more →Media Market Risk Ratings: India
- July 12, 2021
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) are launching a study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India, creating an index that is intended to serve donors and brands with a neutral assessment of news sites that they can utilise to defund disinformation.
Read more →The Ministry And The Trace: Subverting End-To-End Encryption
- July 12, 2021
A legal and technical analysis of the 'traceability' rule and its impact on messaging privacy.
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