Digital Surveillance and the Threat to Civil Liberties in India
Abstract: In India, privacy was declared a fundamental right a few years ago. Since 2013, however, the government has introduced a panoply of digital-surveillance measures, normalising the shift from targeted surveillance to mass surveillance. Attempts to integrate the public and private information of citizens without strong privacy laws and external oversight indicate India's worrying slide towards a rights-restrictive "surveillance democracy." The emergent surveillance regime involves the state, technological companies, and people themselves, who may collaborate to monitor fellow citizens. While those surveilled are overexposed, the surveillants remain opaque. This increases the chances of rights violations, especially of the traditionally marginalised. The functional scope of surveillance has increased with massive digitalisation. It is now part of governance, doubling up as an early-warning system against security threats and a behaviour-moderating system of social management and contro
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Digitale Überwachung und die Bedrohung ziviler Freiheiten in Indien
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 12 S.
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Englisch
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begutachtet
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GIGA Focus Asien ; Bd. 3
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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2021
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Veröffentlichung
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Hamburg
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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Institut für Asien-Studien
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2021
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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Institut für Asien-Studien
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73130-3
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:42 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Mahapatra, Sangeeta
- German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Institut für Asien-Studien
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Entstanden
- 2021
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