Centre For Internet And Society

Extending Aadhaar to more areas is a hare-brained idea, it should be dropped

The insistence of Aadhaar on purchase of vehicles, landline and mobile phone connections and demat accounts is seriously violative of privacy and has enormous potential for misuse. The proposal to extend Aadhhar has to be stopped in its tracks.

Responses to Trai's consultation paper on free data contain some good suggestions

While it is clear that Trai has no intention of withdrawing the Discriminatory Tariff Regulations, the Consultation Paper does appear to open up the doors to net neutrality violations again. Here’s a look at the comments and counter-comments that have come in response to this paper.

Wikipedia entries in Hindi, Malayalam, Telegu on the rise

According to a study done by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), the number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular Indian languages has had notable growth in the last eight months.

Wikipedia entries in Hindi, Malayalam, Telegu on the rise

According to a study done by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), the number of Wikipedia entries in vernacular Indian languages has had notable growth in the last eight months.

No response from Google, Twitter and Facebook over hate content

Facebook, Google and Twitter are yet to identify those behind the blocked inflammatory posts, in light of ...

Govt may introduce graded responses to first-time cyber offenders

If ongoing discussions pertaining to the government’s attempt towards building a system to regulate cyberspace ...

Govt to set up system to strengthen cyber space, social media

In light of the recent turn of events in the country, especially those triggering the widespread 'exodus' of northeast...

India to widen scope of cyber-security coordinator

India is to widen the scope of its cyber-security coordinator in the wake of incendiary internet data that swept the country earlier this month and forced ...

NE exodus: List containing 309 blocked URLs leaks online

Latest reports coming in have confirmed that a list of the 309 URLs, whose ban the government had sought in light of the Assam violence...

How 'private-censorship' is making online content disappear, quietly

As part of the under-cover investigation a CIS researcher sent ‘takedown notices’ (requests to remove content online) to seven major websites quoting liberally from the IT rules.