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(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/igPaVp) This is the first in a two-part post on the National Privacy Principles(NPPs). This post provides with a bit of background, and then deals with Principles One through Four, while the next will deal with Principles Five through Nine. Footnotes are especially important. Disclaimers: The first post is a bit on the longer…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/igPaVp) This is the second in a two-part post on the National Privacy Principles. This post deals with Principles Five through Nine. Footnotes are especially important. Disclaimers: I have taken a bit of artistic license with these two posts, so do allow for that. Feedback, comments, recommendations, are welcome. Following up on the previous post,…
1. Google’s New Open Source Privacy Effort Looks Back to the ’60s, by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Wall Street Journal Blogs – Digits. 2. Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains, by Andy Greenberg, Wired. 3. India Plans to Deal with Malicious Cyber-activities With New National Cyber Coordination Center, by Radu Tyrsina, Technology Personalized. 4. Facebook sees a 24% increase…
[Image Source: http://flic.kr/p/86Q3gF] Social networking websites have taken the Internet by storm in today’s organic society. One such website, Facebook, with over a billion users has often been referred to as the ‘third largest country’ of the world. The rise of Facebook to soaring heights can be credited to first, the intensive monitoring of its users…
Image Source (9 to 5 Mac, available at http://goo.gl/igU7Bd) A new challenge to the legal profession, particularly in the domain of intellectual property rights, has been that of examining the idea of a software. New software, with varying levels of originality or innovation is created every day. If you made one unlike anybody else ever had…
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/6YSTmq) The following is the last in a series of two posts on the Electronic Surveillance laws in India, brought to us by Anurag Dasgupta, CNLU Patna. FEW OTHER STATUTES WHICH AIM AT REGULATING SURVEILLANCE IN INDIA
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/6YSTmq) The following is the first in a series of two posts on the Electronic Surveillance laws in India, brought to us by Anurag Dasgupta, CNLU Patna. After the wave of liberalisation and globalisation; the demographics of various countries have changed, (for better), such change also includes within itself the technological impetus, which many…
1. Google is Not What it Seems, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks. 2. Hungary’s Orban puts Internet tax on hold after huge protests, Kriztina Than and Marton Dunai, Reuters. 3. Good Intentions, Recalcitrant Text – I: Why India’s Proposal at the ITU is Troubling for Internet Freedoms, Geeta Hariharan, CIS-India. 4. Good Intentions, Recalcitrant Text – II:…
(Image Source https://flic.kr/p/aCWXFf) Public.Resource.Org along with other civil liberties advocates in India and Abroad has filed a petition with the Bureau of Indian Standards asking it to make its standards publicly available for free online. The petition is an commendable and crucial step forward for the right to information. The supporters of the petition include Carl Malamud, the…