The government promotes the Aadhaar programme because it believes the 12-digit unique identification number will let them track every penny spent from the exchequer. But money is not all that the Aadhaar number can track.
The article by Aloke Tikku was published in the Hindustan Times on March 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham gave inputs.
Advanced Master in Intellectual Property Rights and ICT Law
Yesterday, the Human Rights Council came out with an advance unedited version of a report (A/HRC/31/65) of the Special Rapporteur on protection of human rights while countering terrorism. This report in particular deals with protecting human rights while preventing and countering violent extremism. The Special Rapporteur, Ben Emmerson, has made some interesting remarks on extremist […]
Date published: March 17, 2016The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 59 groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Committee.
Spokesman Peter Asaro, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said an international treaty to ban the weapons was urgent.
Date published: March 17, 2016"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. “What we’re seeing with drones is no different.”
“While security and privacy have always been important, we are really reaching a critical inflection point,” Calo says. “If we don’t properly secure our cyber-physical infrastructure, we can see a lot worse than drug traffickers spoofing the GPS of a border drone.”"
Date published: March 17, 2016"The legal system has been wrestling with what robots can and can’t do for longer than you might think.
Author(s): Woodrow HartzogPublication Date: March 17, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingIf you’ve been paying attention to the fight between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, you’ve probably heard the term “warrant-proof phones” thrown about in an ominous way.
Date published: March 17, 2016""This is one of the harder questions that we will ever have to deal with," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Centre for Internet and Society.
"How far are we going to go? Where does the government power end to collect all evidence that might exist, and whether it infringes on basic rights? There's no simple answer," he told dpa."
India’s legislators are on Wednesday debating a law that would allow the government to collect biometric and demographic information from people in return for distributing to them government benefits and subsidies.
The article by John Ribeiro published by IDG News Service on March 16, 2016 was also mirrored on CSO.
Stephen Larrick at Sunlight: “The open government community has long envisioned a future where all public policy is collaboratively drafted online and in the open — a future in which we (the people) don’t just have a say in who writes and votes on the rules that govern our society, but are empowered in a substantive way to participate, annotating or even crafting those rules ourselves.
Date published: March 16, 2016"“The government is making the argument that the past is prologue” even though technology has changed, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Law School."
Bloomberg
El Ministerio de Economía subvenciona tres investigaciones de la Facultad de Comunicación
La cuantía de las ayudas a los proyectos supera los 100.000 euros
16/03/16 18:47
Álvaro Pérez Arieta
En el marco de un convenio de colaboración entre la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile -a través del Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos (DEP) y el Programa de Educación Continua para el Magisterio (PEC)- y la Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (CONADI), se desarrollaron dos jornadas de consulta con 30 educadores de pueblos originarios que dan clases en establecimientos educacionales de Coquimbo, Valparaíso, O'Higgins y Metropolitana.Actualmente, los educadores interculturales dictan una asignatura en el sistema escolar que se llama Len
Haciendo frente a los grupos "antivacunas" que señalan que el timerosal, compuesto de mercurio orgánico que tienen algunas vacunas, podría generar autismo en los niños, el Dr. Antonio Rojas, médico cirujano y Jefe del Servicio de Pediatría del Hospital Clínico de la U.
Los rectores Roxana Pey y Rafael Correa, acompañados por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, presentaron a la ministra Delpiano las propuestas de documentos que regularían la vida institucional de las universidades nacientes, textos elaborados en conjunto a las comunidades y autoridades de las respectivas regiones.Hasta las dependencias del Ministerio de Educación llegaron los rectores de la Universidad de Aysén, Roxana Pey, y de la Universidad de O'Higgins, Rafael Correa, para entregar a la ministra Adriana Delpiano la propuesta de estatutos que regirían a los nuevos plantele
Este martes 8 y miércoles 9 de marzo, se relevará y celebrará el rol de las mujeres en la ceremonia de conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer y de la entrega del Premio Amanda Labarca a la prof. Alejandra Mizala.
On March 12, the Lok Sabha passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, paving the way for giving legal status to Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique identification number generated after collecting biometric and other details of an Indian resident.
Sahil Makkar on behalf of Business Standard interviewed Sunil Abraham. The article was published on March 12, 2016.
The bill is basically the same as the UPA version, with some cosmetic changes, and some tokenism towards the right to privacy, says Abraham.
Shreeja Sen interviewed Sunil Abraham. The article was published in Livemint on March 8, 2016.
