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No Consent, No Control: I&B Move to Install Chips in the Set-Top Boxes Invades Privacy?
17 Apr 2018
According to the senior official from the ministry, the move will help obtain “more authentic” viewership figures that will help the advertisers and Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (…
Amit Kapoor
Democracy in the Age of Data
27 Mar 2018
"Data is the new oil" has been a clichéd maxim of the internet age.
Surangya Kaur
AI Race: China and US in the Lead, Where Does India Stand?
12 Feb 2018
India is lagging behind in both data and the availability of skilled professionals capable of handling data.
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Why You Should be Scared of Aadhaar Data Leaks
18 Jan 2018
With everything being connected to Aadhaar, the threat posed by Aadhaar details being made public information is very real…
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Aadhaar Can Cause ‘Civil Death’ of Citizens: Shyam Divan to Supreme Court as Final Hearings Begin
17 Jan 2018
A five-judge Constitution Bench is hearing a bunch of 24 petitions challenging the biometrics-linked Unique Identification (UID) number project.
R. Ramakumar
On the Supreme Court judgement on Aadhaar
12 Aug 2015
The judgement of the Supreme Court on Aadhaar on Tuesday is important in many ways. First, it does bring an end to one stage of the long legal struggle to ensure that citizen's rights and liberties…
Richard Hill
Review of Schiller, Dan (2014) Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis
21 Oct 2014
Disclosure: the author of this review is mentioned in the Acknowledgements section of the reviewed book.
Courtesy: Common DreamsEdward Snowden
NSA Surveillance is about Power, Not "Safety" - An open letter to the people of Brazil
17 Dec 2013
The following letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Greenwald's husband David Miranda:
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PRISM Leak: Understanding How Surveillance Works
13 Jun 2013
In the backdrop of the recent National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program leaks, Newsclick discusses with Prabir Purkayastha on how governments use telephone records and internet traffic as…
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Professor Edgar Whitley (LSE): UID technically infeasible, have huge costs and with enormous potential for misuse
28 May 2012
Professor Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics (LSE) spoke in TISS on the UID scheme proposed in India with biometric data. Prof. Whitley was the lead author of the LSE report that showed that a…