Privacy and surveillance
Under the larger issue of Data
Privacy and data protection have been the most popular responses – in law and regulation as well as in popular understanding – to issues of surveillance and dataveillance. In this section, we investigate the substance of these frameworks, their contours and limitations as well as their usefulness.
Posts & Publications
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Deep Impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology and marginalised identities
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An anniversary we are wary about
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When our bodies become data, where does that leave us?
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Thou shalt build NODEs in the air, but would that be fair? Our submission in response to the NODE White Paper
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Call for Inputs: Surveillance and marginalised communities during COVID19
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‘Best effort basis’: Is it indeed the best effort by the Government?
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New Video: A feminist perspective on principles of consent in the age of embodied data – Draft paper presentation
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When and where is Aarogya Setu mandatory? We’re keeping track
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An exclusion tale: Aarogya Setu’s march from optional to mandatory
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Statement against the mandatory imposition of Aarogya Setu App on workers
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New video: Data is an extension of our bodies
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National Coalition urges Government to comply with privacy principles during COVID-19
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Our submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
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Our new video explains how to trust on the Internet – by remixing already familiar proverbs
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Submission in response to the draft e‑commerce policy
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Online Gods Podcast, featuring our work on Gendering Surveillance
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Internet Democracy Project joins global coalition that urges India to withdraw proposed amendments to Intermediary Guidelines
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Draft amendments to Intermediary Guidelines Rules raise serious concern for freedom of expression and privacy
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We signed an open letter to the leaders of the world’s governments demanding #SecurityForAll
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Open letter to Facebook about its ‘real name’ policy
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We need a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy!
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Letter from international civil society organisations to President Dilma Rousseff in support of her statement at the 68th Session of the UNGA
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India’s Central Monitoring System: No getting away from the gaze of the State
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Can security and human rights be reconciled?
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Freedom Online Coalition: A Call to Governments from civil society
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Civil society letter to US Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance
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Civil society statement to the UN HRC on the impact of state surveillance on human rights globally, addressing the US PRISM program
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Global coalition of NGOs calls to investigate and disable FinFisher’s espionage equipment in Pakistan
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Quotable Quotes from #SAFoE
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Moving forward in fighting online hate speech and excessive surveillance: Suggestions and solutions from #SAFoE
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Cyber security, surveillance and anonymity: The debate at #SAFoE
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Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: Country perspectives – #SAFoE
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Negotiating cyber security, surveillance and hate speech: Keynote speech by Prof. KS Park – #SAFoE