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The Dialogue Think Tank: Shaping India’s Digital Policy Future

Highlights India’s digital transformation is accelerating rapidly across sectors including governance, finance, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital commerce, and internet regulation. As technology continues to shape economic growth and public services, the need for balanced and future-ready policymaking has become more important than ever. This is where The Dialogue Think Tank plays a significant role in […]

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Navigating the Impact: Children’s Data Processing Regulation in the DPDP Act 2023

Introduction and Background In today’s Information Age, we’re witnessing a growing trend where various entities collect, share, and process the personal data of children for various purposes. Unfortunately, this often happens in a way that’s hard for kids and their parents or guardians to notice or fully understand. This raises concerns about the potential exploitation

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Analysing the Impact of IT Rules 2021 on India’s Platform Regulation Ecosystem

Section 79 of the Information Technology Act  shields intermediaries from liability against content posted by third parties, provided the intermediary complies with certain conditions laid out in the provision and rules notified thereunder.  After the subsequent Intermediary Liability Guidelines of 2011 which nurtured an open and progressive internet ecosystem and based on the comments received

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Encryption and Platform Regulation Debate in India and Result Announcement: National Essay Writing Competition on Law and Technology

A Virtual Conference on ‘Encryption & Platform Regulation Debate in India’ co-hosted by The Dialogue and the Law & Technology Society of National Law School of India, Bangalore was held on April 4. The event was graced by Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court; Dr Menaka Guruswamy, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court

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Multi-Stakeholder Covid-19 Management, Gurugram, Haryana

The second Covid-19 wave hit India with vengeance adversely impacting the healthcare system with people scrambling for basic necessities like oxygen, hospital bed, medicines and even doctor consultations. The government administration was also trying to implement a slew of measures such as identifying containment zones, stricter measures to limit public movement, figuring out demand and

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Technically Speaking, Why is Encryption a Big Deal for the Government?

Encryption has been the talk of the tech world for the better part of 5 years now. While everyone agrees that encryption plays and will continue to play a significant role in our lives, decision-makers are clearly divided about the extent of encryption; should encryption be absolute? Or should governments be able to bypass encryption?

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Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Future of India’s Data Governance Policies

The revised draft of the NPD Governance Framework, which aims to create processes for sharing non personal data for larger social and economic benefit, is a step in the right direction. The draft has taken inputs from over 1500 submissions on the earlier report, and has directly engaged with some of the key concerns.   In

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