National security and Right to Privacy have often been seen as two sides of the spectrum, but is it? On one hand, the digital boom and the pandemic which forced half-of the population to go online has come at a cost of loss to privacy and agency. On the other hand, the recent ban of […]
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Over the past decade, businessmen as well as policymakers have embraced the role of data analytics in driving decision making. This has been promoted even further with the steady advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. This effect has spilled over into law enforcement as well, with predictive policing — usage of data analytics
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In the age of Artificial Intelligence governing our lives across sectors, NITI Aayog’s Draft on ‘Responsible AI for all’ is a timely development. There are a number of measures taken by the Government of India, primarily in dissemination of public welfare goods and services i.e. Aadhaar, which works on ‘probabilistic algorithmic systems’. Evaluating the potential
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Information technology and communication technologies have huge potential to provide new opportunities and challenges for developing economies. Since the wave of liberalisation in the 1990’s, India has harnessed technologies along with vast economic reforms to open up Indian markets to global businesses and investments. However, in the recent past, the Indian leadership’s focus on amplifying
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In the past few decades, the increasingly interconnected nature of the global economy has seen the rise of multinational corporations and brought international regulatory systems into closer interaction with each other. With this increase in global commerce, the world has also witnessed a significant spike in cross-border crimes, prime among which are money laundering and
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Finance Act 2020, came up with the provision to expand the existing scope of equalisation levy to the non-resident e-commerce operators. This provision was added to the Finance bill at the last minute without any notice or any reference either in the original bill or in the union budget speech of the Finance Minister. Due
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“It takes more than one gender to have gender inequality; and more than one gender to work towards justice.” In their introduction to Data Feminism, researchers Catherine D’ Ignazio and Lauren Klein elucidate the need to look at data inclusively. Using the theories of intersectional feminists across decades, the duo of MIT professors shed light
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With increasing reliance on data-driven solutions to man’s everyday problems and increased automation of everyday activities, the digital and the human are entwined. These information systems are placed in charge of performing human tasks and/or are used to guide human actions based on its decision- all done in an attempt to increase ‘efficiency’. We often
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On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark judgement in the Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited case — commonly referred to as Schrems II after the primary complainant, Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems. This case is a follow up to Schrems I, in which the
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In line with the American development, the Committee of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament came up with a report to curb the proliferation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The legislators proposed to break encryption in order to trace the originator. This move albeit well-intentioned is likely to do more harm than good.
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