Internet Governance

Govt to keep Aadhaar record for 7 years, activists worried

Women show their Aadhaar cards while standing in a queue at a poll booth in Ajmer. (PTI File Photo) The...

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Unpacking video-based surveillance in New Delhi

Agenda of the workshop: Download (DOCX) Slides from the presentation: Download (PDF) The aim of the workshop was to present...

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CIS Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech and Expression: Surveillance Industry and Human Rights

CIS is grateful for the opportunity to submit the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on call for submissions on the...

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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?

The article was first published by EPW Engage, Vol. 54, Issue No. 6, on 9 February 2019. Framing Reproductive Health...

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Regulating the Internet: The Government of India & Standards Development at the IETF

This brief was authored by Aayush Rathi, Gurshabad Grover and Sunil Abraham. Click here to download the policy brief. Executive...

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Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance

The article was published in Bloomberg Quint on October 15, 2018 and also mirrored in the Quint. In April 2018,...

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How Aadhaar compromises privacy? And how to fix it?

The op-ed was published in the Hindu on March 31, 2017. When assessing a technology, dont ask – “what use...

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The Design & Technology behind India’s Surveillance Programmes

While the legal and policy avenues of  state surveillance in India have been analysed by various organisations, there is very...

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Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Monitoring: Download (PDF) Introduction In 2014, the Government of India launched the much lauded and popular citizen outreach...

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Workshop Report – UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures

Introduction The Centre for Internet and Society organised a workshop on “UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures” at the...

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