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5 years of Digital India – How far have we come?

Kazim Rizvi, Shefali Mehta /

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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The Role Of Cross-Border Data Flows In Countering Terror Financing

Gautam Kathuria, Kazim Rizvi /

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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Data Feminism: Intersectional Benchmarks for a Data-Driven World

Trisha Pande /

“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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Weapons of Math Destruction

Karthik Venkatesh /

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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To break Encryption, or not: that is the question

Leave a Comment / Kazim Rizvi, Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari /

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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Facilitating trust and inclusion – Important building blocks of a data protection framework

Shefali Mehta /

Among the many epiphanies one has had owing to the COVID19 pandemic, the spike in the knowledge or awareness of the amount of data pertaining to citizens that a Government has the ability to handle has been a common one. Though citizens are often willing participants in efforts aimed at better governance, they are also

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The Role of Data Trustee in the NPD Ecosystem

Ayush Tripathi /

The draft Non-Personal Data (“NPD”) governance framework envisages three key roles in the ecosystem i.e. data principal (to whom the data relates to), data custodian (undertakes collection, storage, processing and use of NPD) and data trustees (through which data principal/community will exercise its rights). Data trustees have been constituted for the purpose of exercising rights

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Deciphering key roles and challenges in Non-Personal Data ecosystem

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The Dialogue, on July 31, concluded the first, in a series of Virtual Consultations on Non-Personal Data (NPD) Governance with close to 100 participants. The event included representatives from leading think tanks and civil society organizations, law firms, businesses, industry bodies, researchers. There were five panels that were thematically arranged for deeper discussions on the

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