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Algorithmic Transparency PDF

pranav — 2020-07-09T05:20:27Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/algorithmic-transparency-pdf

CISFinancials_2018-19 PDF

pranav — 2020-07-15T09:56:33Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/files/cisfinancials_2018-19-pdf

Privacy_Covid19_Event_Poster

pranav — 2020-07-15T10:07:06Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/privacy_covid19_event_poster

Artificial Intelligence: A Full-Spectrum Regulatory Challenge (Working Draft) PDF

pranav — 2020-08-04T06:07:47Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/artificial-intelligence-a-full-spectrum-regulatory-challenge-working-draft-pdf

Fundamental Right to Privacy — Three Years of the Puttaswamy Judgment

pranav — 2020-08-24T07:46:10Z

Today marks three years since the Supreme Court of India recognised the fundamental right to privacy, but the ideals laid down in the Puttaswamy Judgment are far from being completely realized. Through our research, we invite you to better understand the judgment and its implications, and take stock of recent issues pertaining to privacy.

Amber Sinha dissects the Puttaswamy Judgment through an analysis of the sources, scope and structure of the right, and its possible limitations. [link]

Through a visual guide to the fundamental right to privacy, Amber Sinha and Pooja Saxena trace how courts in India have viewed the right to privacy since Independence, explain how key legal questions were resolved in the Puttaswamy Judgement, and provide an account of the four dimensions of privacy — space, body, information and choice — recognized by the Supreme Court. [link]

Based on publicly available submissions, press statements, and other media reports, Arindrajit Basu and Amber Sinha track the political evolution of the data protection ecosystem in India, on EPW Engage. They discuss how this has, and will continue to impact legislative and policy developments. [link]

For the AI Policy Exchange, Arindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar examine the Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS), and define the key legal and policy questions related to privacy concerns around the adoption of AFRS by governments around the world. [link]

Over the past decade, reproductive health programmes in India have been digitising extensive data about pregnant women. In partnership with Privacy International, we studied the Mother and Child Tracking system (MCTS), and Ambika Tandon presents the impact on the privacy of mothers and children in the country. [link]

While the right to privacy can be used to protect oneself from state surveillance, Mira Swaminathan and Shubhika Saluja write about the equally crucial problem of lateral surveillance — surveillance that happens between individuals, and within neighbourhoods, and communities — with a focus on this issue during the COVID-19 crisis. [link]

Finally, take a dive into the archives of the Centre for Internet and Society to read our work, which was cited in the Puttaswamy judgment — essays by Ashna Ashesh, Vidushi Marda and Bhairav Acharya that displaced the notion that privacy is inherently a Western concept, by attempting to locate the constructs of privacy in Classical Hindu [link], and Islamic Laws [link]; and Acharya’s article in the Economic and Political Weekly, which highlighted the need for privacy jurisprudence to reflect theoretical clarity, and be sensitive to unique Indian contexts [link].

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/fundamental-right-to-privacy-three-years-of-the-puttaswamy-judgment

CIS Internship Programme (October 2020)

pranav — 2020-09-03T03:01:13Z

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) provides opportunities for students and professionals to undertake remote internships. Please continue to read through for more information about the process.

CIS is excited to announce its internship program for October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and continued requirements on physical distancing, this program will be run remotely. Applicants can apply for a slot running for a minimum of 4 weeks in the month of October. The internship call is open only for Indian residents, both students and professionals. Women and individuals from under-represented communities are specifically encouraged to apply.

Roles and Responsibilities

Interns may be expected to work on a range of tasks, from undertaking literature reviews, to editing or proof-reading documents, and writing or co-writing pieces of their choice. The exact nature of work will be decided on a case-by-case basis, in consultation with supervisors.

Interns will be expected to work full time, i.e. they should be working on CIS related tasks for 40 hours a week, and will be expected to respond to calls/texts between 10AM-6PM Monday to Friday. Supervisors will schedule check-in-calls twice a week.

Interns will receive a stipend.

If you are interested in applying for any of these slots, please send in your internship application to internship@cis-india.org by September 15th, 2020. Applicants can expect to hear back from us by September 20th, 2020. Unless asked for by a prospective supervisor, there will be no interview, and applicants will be judged on the basis of their written application.

Your application should include:

An updated CV
Two writing samples between 1000-3000 words each
A covering email clearly stating your area of work preference, and why you are interested in this area.

Presently, the work areas for our internship program include:

Freedom of Expression on the Internet:

Analysing the Constitutional provision that enables the right to free speech, and jurisprudence around what is permissible speech online;
Analysing content moderation policies;
Researching intermediary liability regimes.

Intermediary Liability:

Analyzing regulations in India and around the world which govern liability of online intermediaries that deal with user-generated content
Studying safe harbour and other forms of intermediary liability regimes, effectiveness of existing measures, and possible best practices to combat illegal content online.

Making Voices Heard Project:

Researching on issues of privacy for digital voice interfaces in India and globally.

Digital ID Research:

Studying the appropriate uses of Digital ID;
Researching the technology and policy design of Digital ID systems.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/jobs/cis-internship-programme-october-2020

Annual Programmatic Report 2018-2019

pranav — 2020-11-10T10:56:33Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/about/reports/annual-programmatic-report-2018-2019

Presentation: Gender, Health Communications, and Online Activism in the Digital Age (PDF)

pranav — 2019-12-02T09:37:08Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/presentation-gender-health-communications-and-online-activism-in-the-digital-age-pdf

How to Shut Down Internet Shutdowns Descriptive Image

pranav — 2020-02-03T08:14:18Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/how-to-shut-down-internet-shutdowns-descriptive-image

Image - Governing ID: Principles for Evalution

pranav — 2020-03-02T08:29:16Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/image-governing-id-principles-for-evalution

Image - Governing ID Use of Digital ID for Verification

pranav — 2020-03-02T10:51:21Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/image-governing-id-use-of-digital-id-for-verification

Digital ID India Case Study

pranav — 2020-03-02T11:30:30Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/digital-id-india-case-study

Image - Digital ID Healthcare Case Study

pranav — 2020-03-02T11:44:40Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/image-digital-id-healthcare-case-study

Digital ID Kenya Case Study

pranav — 2020-03-02T13:15:55Z

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/digital-id-kenya-case-study

A Compilation of Research on the PDP Bill

pranav — 2020-03-05T08:04:24Z

The most recent step in India’s initiative to create an effective and comprehensive Data Protection regime was the call for comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which closed last month. Leading up to the comments, CIS has published numerous research pieces with the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of how this legislation would place India within the global scheme, and how the local situation has developed, as well as analysing its impacts on citizens’ rights.

In addition to general and clause-by-clause comments and recommendations, we have compiled an annotated version of the Personal Data Protection Bill, which lays out our commentary in an easy-to-follow format.

Below, you can find our other recent research on Data Protection:

Pallavi Bedi has put together a note on the Divergence between EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Personal Data Protection Bill.

In addition, Pallavi has also contrasted the Personal Data Protection Bill with the GDPR and California Consumer Protection Act, in the contexts of jurisdiction and scope, rights of the data principal, obligations of data fiduciaries, exemptions, data protection authority, and breach of personal data.

On IAPP’s blog Privacy Perspectives, D. Shweta Reddy has assessed whether the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 is sufficient for India to receive adequacy status from the EU.

Along with Justin Sherman, Arindrajit Basu has outlined the key global takeaways from the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 on Lawfare.

On The Diplomat, Arindrajit has also traced the narrowing localization provisions in India, as well as Vietnam and Indonesia, and studied the actors and geopolitical tussle that has shaped these provisions.

Through a string of publicly available submissions, press statements, and other media reports, Arindrajit and Amber Sinha have tracked the political evolution of the data protection ecosystem in India, and how this has, and will continue to impact legislative and policy developments on EPW Engage.

Gurshabad Grover and Tanaya Rajwade have written on The Wire about how the Personal Data Protection Bill regulates social media.

Amber was also a guest on Suno India’s Cyber Democracy podcast, with Srinivas Kodali, to discuss how the latest version of the Personal Data Protection Bill will impact the right to privacy.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/compilation-of-research-on-data-protection