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Focus Page on Internet Censorship in India -- sacw
 
South Asia some official bodies:

Pakistan:
Nadra
Pemra

India:
TRAI

Sri Lanka:
Council for Information Technology

Legal Texts:

India:
Information
Technology Act, 2000


India:
The Official Secrets Act

Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance 2002

Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act 2003

Pakistan: Electronic Security Ordinance 2002

Resources:

Arguments against MNIC

[India] Information Technology Act: Danger of Violation of Civil Rights by Sruti Chaganti

A Chronicle of Media and the State Jeebesh Bagchi

India: The dangers posed by the outdated Official Secrets Act, 1923(10 March 2003)

Guide to Internet Censorship in india

Getting to know you The Internet, privacy and the implications of surveillance -- Jayati Ghosh

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Digital delusions in the South
by Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (August 2002)

Demystifying the IT revolution
review by Praful Bidwai



Links

India - gii

Peoples Union for Civil liberties:
PUCL

News and Reports on goings on in S. Asia



India's Cyber Cafes Log Customers' Details (Mar 2, 2005)
Internet Content Filtering in India: Variations in Compliance and Accuracy -- Open Net Initiative May 27, 2004

Pakistan: Law being drafted to monitor internet cafes (August 23, 2004)

Media Body Condemns Internet Curbs in Maldives
-- OneWorld.net (Aug 17, 2004)

Pakistan:
Lahore, Cameras sought for monitoring plays -- Dawn (August 13, 2004)

India: Sensor in your cellphone
-- Times of India (May 10, 2004)

Pakistan: FBI, Interpol to help FIA against terrorism
-- Khawaja Naseer (June 23, 2004)

India: Army for separate info network in border areas (May 2004)

Hush! Big Brother May Be Listening in Bangladesh -- Sharier Khan (April 22, 2004)

Winning elections made easy Theoretically, it is possible to replace original EVMs with doctored ones --Satinath Choudhary (April 19, 2004)

Cyber Policing on the Rise Across Asia: Report -- Rahul Verma (25 June 2004)

Dumbing Down Democracy: Trends in Internet Regulation, Surveillance and Control in Asia -- James Gomez (11 March 2004)

India: Bombay Plans cyber cafe controls -- BBC (27 January 2004)

The politics of information control Dumbing down the Maldivian atolls --Michael O'Shea and Fareesha Abdulla (November 2003)

India tracks militants using 'Digital-DNA' -- Iftikhar Gilani

Official communique by India's Press Info Bureau on the MNIC ID card project (August 2003) [BTW the ministers name was ID swami]

Stop Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation's censoring -- Isa Daudpota (July 2003)

Pakistan: Islamists want restrictions on cyber cafes (February 2003)

India: Geelani's case --Naunidhi Kaur (December 2002)

Pakistan:
Electronic warfare support need of the hour: Adml Shahid (December 31, 2002)


India's Short Message: We C U -- Ashutosh Sinha (Dec 2002)

Update on Indian SMS wiretapping (Dec 18, 2002)

Pakistan:
ISPs directed to help govt track e-mails of suspects(July, 2002)

Eyes and ears wide open -- Praveen Swami (May 2000)

Every Mobile/Cell Phone user in India and Pakistan is under Signal Intelligence Periscope

India darkens Dawn --Andrew Leonard (July 1999)

Indian Government Ban of Net Access to Pakistani News Broken (July 5, 1999)

Relevant material from elsewhere

The Surveillance-Industrial Complex
-- Jan Stanley / ACLU (August 2004)

Security threats raise concerns about Bluetooth -- Bob Brewin (May 10, 2004)

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login
-- Rachel Metz (2004)

Wiretapping the wireless becomes new fed hangup -- Thomas Caywood June 6, 2004

A Tack in the Shoe: Neutralizing and Resisting the New Surveillance -- Gary T. Marx (May 2003)

How US paid for secret files on foreign citizens -- Oliver Burkeman and Jo Tuckman (May 5, 2003)

Impartiality and Responsility -- Veran Matic (2003)

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Understanding Internation ICT and Development Discourse -- Merridy Wilson

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Information ghettoes: the internet and democratic debate (2001)

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The Degradation of Political Identity Under a National Identification System -- Richard Sobel (2002)

A Question of Identity -- BBC, (September 25, 2001)

The Trouble with RFID

Books:

Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

The Technical Surveillance Countermeasures handbook

Wireless Privacy: RFID, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth
-- Simson Garfinkel
ISBN: 0-321-29096-8
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Copyright: 2005
Status: Not Yet Published; Estimated Availability: 04/29/2005

International Links / Resources

Global Internet Liberty Campaign

cyber-rights

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Privaterra

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Surveillance and Society

Echelon Watch

Open discussion forum for biometric technologies

France: Souriez, Vous Etes Filmes

Collectif pour les Libertés Individuelles Face aux Technologies de l'Information

Tools:

The Anonymizer

Pretty Good Privacy

making wireless stuff invisible to any other wireless stuff or signal


Watch these !

Canadian Communications Security Establishment

Total Information Awareness Program, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense, December 12, 2003