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Seventh Privacy Round-table
On October 19, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in collaboration with the Federation for Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Data ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Nov 20, 2013 09:58 AM — Filed under: ,
Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951
The Central Government made the following rules to amend the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951. by Jadine Lannon last modified Nov 19, 2013 07:16 AM — Filed under:
Big Democracy: Big Surveillance - A talk by Maria Xynou
Next Tuesday, Maria Xynou will be presenting her latest research on surveillance in India. Come and engage in a discussion on India's controversial ... by Maria Xynou last modified Dec 12, 2013 10:23 AM — Filed under: , ,
I Just Pinged to Say Hello
A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space. by Nishant Shah last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:36 AM — Filed under: , ,
Chances and Risks of Social Participation
Participation is a key issue within Internet research and hence also for the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. For this reason the ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 30, 2013 09:19 AM — Filed under:
When the virtual world wakes up the real one
The unprecedented wave of voices speaking up against sexual harassment in recent times has as much to do with technology as the determination to seek justice. ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 30, 2013 09:35 AM — Filed under: ,
Brochures from Expos on Smart Cards, e-Security, RFID & Biometrics in India
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 ... by Maria Xynou last modified Dec 26, 2013 05:24 AM — Filed under: ,
Card transactions with Aadhaar validation need more time: experts
Cost and supply implications are seen by experts as the main hurdles in implementing the RBI directive. by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 26, 2013 06:25 AM — Filed under: ,
India for UN body to resolve internet governance issues
Multi-stakeholder or multi-lateral - two words encapsulating diametrically opposite views on internet governance stands at the heart of a raging debate across ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 26, 2013 08:51 AM — Filed under:
Indian government wakes up to risk of Hotmail, Gmail
Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the man responsible for drafting ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 30, 2013 04:24 AM — Filed under: , ,
VII NLSIR Symposium
The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) - the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is pleased to announce ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 09, 2014 07:08 AM — Filed under: ,
India's Identity Crisis
Malavika Jayaram's article was published in 2013 Internet Monitor Annual Report: Reflections on the Digital World, published by Harvard's Berkman Center for ... by Malavika Jayaram last modified Jan 09, 2014 07:56 AM — Filed under: ,
Privacy, Free/Open Source, and the Cloud
A look into the questions that arise in concern to privacy and cloud computing, and how open source plays into the picture. by Elonnai Hickok last modified Mar 22, 2012 05:50 AM — Filed under: , ,
Internet Freedom in India – Open to Debate
In the aftermath of an Index on Censorship debate in New Delhi, Kirsty Hughes says India’s web users are standing at a crossroads by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 25, 2013 10:45 AM — Filed under: , ,
9th International Asian Conference
ITechLaw is organizing the 9th Annual Asian ITechLaw Conference on February 14 and 15, 2013 in India's high technology capital - Bangalore, India. Sunil ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 25, 2013 06:20 PM — Filed under: , ,
Data Retention in India
As part of its privacy research, the Centre for Internet and Society has been researching upon data retention mandates from the Government of India and data ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Jul 12, 2013 03:51 PM — Filed under: , ,
An innovative concept comes to the fore
There’s very little awareness about Bitcoin — a new digital currency and payment system, designed for the voting process of ‘Bitfilm 13’ — in the City. Aaron ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jan 30, 2013 06:04 AM — Filed under:
Is freedom of expression under threat in the digital age?
This week Index held a high level panel debate in partnership with the Editors Guild of India and the India International Centre to discuss the question “Is ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Feb 03, 2013 10:50 AM — Filed under: ,
January 2013 Bulletin
We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the first issue of our newsletter for the year 2013. This ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 11, 2013 11:56 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
2012: Privacy Highlights in India
In this blog post, Elonnai Hickok summarizes the top privacy moments of 2012 in India. In doing so she lists out the major ones like the Report of Group of ... by Elonnai Hickok last modified Feb 12, 2013 12:39 PM — Filed under: ,
Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook
For over 30 hours following the death of the Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray on Saturday, stores throughout Mumbai closed their shutters and taxis and ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 21, 2012 11:32 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Girls arrested for Facebook post on Thackeray get bail
Two girls who were arrested for making a Facebook comment protesting the closure of shops in the wake of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray‘s death, have been ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 30, 2012 05:18 AM — Filed under: , ,
India's Shame: World Reacts to FB Post Arrest
The arrest of 21 year old Shaheen Dhada for posting anti-Bal Thackeray comments has not only outraged Indians. The story has been picked up and reported across ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 30, 2012 05:51 AM — Filed under: , ,
Thousands go online against 66A
An online petition aimed at amending section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act and re-examining internet laws has garnered 3,000 signatures since it ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Nov 30, 2012 06:40 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Section 66F of the Information Technology Act, 2000
Section 66F: Punishment for cyber terrorism. by Snehashish Ghosh last modified Dec 02, 2012 09:39 AM — Filed under: ,
The real Sibal’s law: Resisting Section 66A is futile
The Information Technology Act is “substantially the same” as laws instituted in other democracies like UK and the United States. What’s more, the language ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Dec 03, 2012 05:16 AM — Filed under: ,
DIDP #34 On granular detail on ICANN's budget for policy development process
ICANN has Advisory Committees which help guide the policy recommendations that the ICANN community develops while its Supporting Organizations are charged with ... by Akriti Bopanna last modified Jul 06, 2019 01:23 AM — Filed under: , ,
Workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South'
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented our research on video-based surveillance in New Delhi at a workshop on urban data, inequality, and justice in the ... by Admin last modified Jul 06, 2019 01:30 AM — Filed under: , ,
Fragmenting Cybersecurity Norms through the Language(s) of Subalternity: India in the East and the Global Community
Arindrajit Basu's research was quoted in the article by Riccardo Vecellio Segate published in Columbia Journal of Asian Law. by Admin last modified Jul 06, 2019 03:01 AM — Filed under:
No Fintech company meets every single privacy requirement under IT Act: CIS report
The study shows that privacy policies companies such as Paytm, Jio Payments Bank, Airtel Payments Bank, Amazon Pay, Bhim are not accessible from the main ... by Shilpa S. Ranipeta last modified Jul 08, 2019 02:34 AM — Filed under: ,