Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: What we found in six African countries
Governments are purposefully using laws that lack clarity. Or they ignore laws completely in order to carry out illegal digital surveillance of …
Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians
Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy
China’s ‘surveillance creep’: How big data COVID-19 monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic
A more robust system was constructed to collect and monitor big data related to pandemic control
India’s first bird flu death: Back to zoonotic diseases
The disease has been on India’s radar since 2006; need to strengthen disease surveillance, train workforce and build robust …
‘Facial recognition technology will hamper people’s right to freedom of expression and privacy’
Anushka Jain of non-profit Internet Freedom Foundation, Delhi, talks about the concerns that surround the use of facial recognition …
UN says disruption of internet access human rights violation; India opposes
India wanted the UN to delete a passage in the resolution that condemned measures to prevent or disrupt access to internet
Facebook is restricting search results – is this taking transparency seriously?
Facebook is deliberately limiting the number of archived public messages anyone can see: hiding many messages sent by all manner of Facebook pages
Over 36,000 screened for Ebola in India
Of the 700 passengers being tracked, most are in Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal and Delhi
COVID-19 2nd wave: PM Modi, here are 5 things you should do right away
Surveillance and testing, field hospitals, health corps, a human touch and awareness drives can help stem the current wave of COVID-19 in India
Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds
How the Cambridge academic Michal Kosinski’s model is able to predict someone’s personality profile just on the basis of 300 likes
You have the right to remain silent
Reflecting upon the state of freedom of speech and expression in India, in the wake of the shut-down of the political satire website …
Big Brother is watching you; actually your face
Facial recognition has become a frontline policing tool in India amid fears that it is prone to errors and allows the government to expand …
India finalises national action plan on antimicrobial resistance
The government terms antimicrobial resistance as a serious threat to global public health
No integration in India’s disease data collection systems: Niti Aayog
White paper highlights several lacunae including shortage of human resources, occupational health, surveillance; suggests series of measures …
Internet shutdowns: India saw half of all global gags in 2022
The country topped charts for blackouts for a 5th consecutive time; 2022 also saw highest total number of shutdowns worldwide
One Health: What it is & how it can be implemented in India
Nexus of science, social science, indigenous knowledge and policy necessary
Ebola: Indian health minister calls emergency meeting
Detailed plan in the works for tackling any emergency arising out of deadly disease outbreak in Africa
How people-centric public health surveillance can help control COVID-19
There is an urgent need to engage with the community to capture human lives, their social and economic demography
India’s mysterious diseases: ‘We need a public health system’
Human health management is dismally low in India, says T Jacob John, virologist and former professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore
ICMR launches three new diagnostic kits
They will help reduce costs of detecting pathogens in food, estimating iron levels in blood and determining vitamin A levels in blood under …
India’s mysterious diseases: Why are they happening?
The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme is not working as it was conceptualised, say experts
India’s mysterious diseases: What is NCDC doing?
There is enough evidence to show that National Centre for Disease Control on diseases is not equipped to deal with the country’s …
Raipur's clean power plants using coal on the sly
They are registered as clean development mechanism projects, eligible for carbon credits
‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’
Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System
Parliamentary Digest (August 4, 2022): A million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2019-20
All that was discussed in the House through the day