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Srikanth, who has been driving with @Uber_India for over 1.5 years now and holds a 4.67 star rating for the 1428 trips he completed, has been blocked by Uber. Srikanth shaved his head during a recent trip to Tirupati, and when he returned, 1/3
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Bhima Koregaon: Key evidence against jailed activists planted using malware, says forensic report scroll.in/latest/986517/bhim… via @scroll_in
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Why ironically using terms like “aandolanjeevi” and “urban naxals” is unhelpful even when mocking, disagreeing, or “reclaiming” them.
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In which @katecrawford explains why we can't really address what's wrong with the Internet unless we consider the deep roots of the problem, all the way to the extractive industries that produce the tech we love: publicinfrastructure.org/pod…
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1/8 If you are one of those interested in reading about how Chinese apps like TikTok, Bigo and Likee have shaped Indian communities and their identities, bookmark this thread and browse through 🧵
It includes some fantastic reporting from eminent friends and colleagues as well
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While the world worried about the virus and stocked up on toilet paper, Asma stocked up on online courses. To Asma, who has lived through the roughly 180 internet shutdowns that have been imposed on #Kashmir since 2012, planning ahead is now second nature
restofworld.org/2020/lockdow…
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We asked two Indian students — one in #Kashmir & the other in Tamil Nadu — under lockdown and record their screens downloading the same assignment
This is what online education with 2G internet looks like👇
Story w/t @VarshaaBansal for @restofworld
restofworld.org/2020/lockdow…
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“We’re going to see a widening of educational inequality that will last a long time and won’t fade away.” bit.ly/3dLlfjx
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India is the only country, where Police officers write OpEds that a mandatory app that collects a lot of data un-necessarily is Privacy friendly and people are like, Vow, So nicely written.
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Whole Foods implemented a risk assessment tool to gauge which stores are most likely to unionize - the metrics include things like racial diversity, local unemployment rate, and number of charges filed with the NLRB: businessinsider.com/whole-fo…
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#AarogyaSetuApp - Could it be better? @_riddhishree does a deepdive on the app and #ContactTracing in general.
medium.com/karana/aarogya-se…
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Sharing #Aadhaar part of vehicle registration would mean food supplies department will access it without your consent and stop giving you ration. Centralization of data creates centralization of power.
deccanherald.com/city/bengal…
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Remember all those who said that Aadhaar would only ever be a tool for inclusion?
thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyd…
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Google’s acquisition of Fitbit will also deprive users of one simple, meaningful choice: to track their health and fitness without putting that data into Google’s ecosystem. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/go…
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Use #Aadhaar data for #FacialRecognition with drones. Somebody send this to the supreme court and all the @Product_Nation apologists who said no surveillance can happen with Aadhaar.
outlookindia.com/website/amp…
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This virus is teaching us that from now on, living wages, guaranteed health care for all, unemployment & labor rights are not far left issues, but issues of right vs wrong & life vs death.
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#FacialRecognition is a tool for exercise of power. Rampant use will reshape personalities and societies in unimagined ways. Broad surveillance exemptions under the #PDPBill make it particularly imp to call this out. An explainer by @DataGovNetwork
youtu.be/O2a1zNNWFsY
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A young student talks about how Internet shutdown in Kashmir affected her studies. Share your experiences and feedback at internetshutdowns.in or tweet at @NetShutdowns Or @SFLCin
#LetTheNetWork #KeepItOn #VoicesFromKashmir #internetshutdown
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Very important judgment from the Netherlands, on how algorithmic and ID tools to detect "welfare fraud" are actually weapons of surveillance and discrimination.
(Link to judgment in the text of the report.)
ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Page…
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An order was released on 25th January 2020 by the administration of J&K allowing internet access on 2G for 301 whitelisted websites. We asked a user to access some whitelisted websites on 2G.
This is what was found.
#LetTheNetWork #KeepItOn #JammuAndKashmir