Some experts say the need of the hour is for India to update its cybersecurity policy to respond to growing threats in cyberspace. Information warfare specialists hint at the local storage of digital information as the key to the cybersecurity of the country.
The blog post was published by Sputnik on April 17, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Amber Sinha took part in the second international conference organized by ASSOCHAM at Hotel Shangri-La in New Delhi on April 27, 2018.
Keynote Address
12.15 p.m. - 12.30 p.m.: Shri Gopalakrishnan S., Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India
Special Address
12.30 p.m. - 12.45 p.m.: Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director and Professor, Computer Science and Engg, IIT Patna and Chairman, BIS Committee for Standardisation in Artificial Intelligence
Panel Discussion
Session Moderator
Independent security researcher Kodali Srinivas tweeted screenshots of Aadhaar data of 89,38,138 MNREGA workers available on the Andhra Pradesh Benefit Disbursement Portal.
The article was published in New Indian Express on April 27, 2018.
Swaraj Barooah attended the #NAMApolicy on Online Content Regulation organized by Media Nama at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on May 3, 2018.
Agenda
01:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m.: Panel #1 & Open House - News
03:00 p.m. - 03:15 p.m.: Tea break
03:15 p.m. - 04:45 p.m.: Panel #2 & Open House - Entertainment
04:45 p.m. - 05:15 p.m.: Remaining issues
05:15 p.m. - 06:00 p.m.: High-tea
We are launching our report on hate speech laws in India. This report maps criminal laws and procedural laws, along with medium-specific laws used by the state to regulate hate speech. This report was launched last week at a panel on ‘Harmful Speech in India’, as a part of UNESCOs World Press Freedom Day. The […]
The year 2017 was an important milestone in moving forward the European agenda for Digital for Development (D4D).
At a time when we notice increasing and alarming threats to media freedom around the world, World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) is more pertinent today than ever before. We therefore can’t afford to celebrate this important day without both considering the damage done to the free press over the past year and intensifying our efforts to protect journalists and the future of journalism around the world.
Northern Public Affairs, in collaboration with the Internet Society, is pleased to release a call for contributions to the Fall 2018 special issue of NPA Magazine focusing on emerging developments in community networks among Indigenous peoples in North America.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
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Wednesday, 2 May 2018, the Internet Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of Internet Exchange Points (LAC-IX) and the Latin American Registry for Internet Numbers (LACNIC) to create and strengthen Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) for a stable, secure, and open Internet and to maximise the impact of our activities across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The World Press Freedom Day 2018, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom and to raise consciousness about the state of press freedom throughout the world, tragically coincides this year with the dreadful terrorist attacks in Afghanistan where, once again, journalists in the line of duty lost their lives.
This blog has been reposted from the Open Development Cambodia blog
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Cyber experts said that under the provisions provided by 43 (A) of Indian IT Act, two types of data collection are completely legal: first, the data shared by the user in the public domain and secondly, the data published by the social platforms, like Facebook.
This article was published in the Economic Times on May 2, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Sunil Abraham spoke to ANI regarding collection of data and its use by political parties for electoral gains.
This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Italy blog.
The "Schwäbisches Tagblatt" published an article by Manfred Hantke on the PODESTA project. The article describes the projects approach, aims and challenges.The project, supporteed by the federal ministry of education and research, aims to develop solutions against the growing right-wing-movement, which is considered a consequence of the democracy crisis.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Twitter does not share a break-up of users by region, the platform has less than 100 million users in India.
The article by Prasun Sonwalkar and Vidhi Choudhury was published in the Hindustan Times on April 30, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.