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Preliminary Analysis: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022-Key Changes, Evolution and Analysis

This research brief has been formulated with the following objectives to summarise key amendments proposed by the Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and analyse it. It traces the evolution of these changes over the past four years by looking at previous iterations of the Bill and recommendations of experts and provide recommendations on changes that would […]

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The Dialogue – NASSCOM Policy Brief Series on Data Protection Bill 2021

About the series: There have been three significant efforts to formulate a bill so far, with the most recent one being the (Draft) Data Protection Bill of 2021 (DPB 2021) proposed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee. For stakeholders like data fiduciaries, data processors, data principals and other policy actors, DPB 2021 currently serves as the

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IT RULES, 2021: A REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY 

Given the rise in online harms, the MeitY introduced the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 in February 2021. While many provisions addressed some of the safety challenges, the lack of public consultation obviated the Rules to resolve the primary concerns. Towards this, The Dialogue in collaboration with Internet and

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RBI’sCoF and Tokenisation Guidelines – Assessing the Preparedness of the Payments Ecosystem

About the White Paper: The Reserve Bank of India mandated the deletion of card-on-file data by merchants and PA/PGs. Industry bodies and civil-society organisations gave inputs seeking an extension of this deadline in December last year, including The Dialogue and Deepstrat which published a paper outlining the challenges associated with rushed compliance. The RBI, taking

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Technical Brief: Analysing the Technical Workarounds to End-to-end encryption

With the increase in the perpetration of cybercrimes like fake news proliferation, child sexual abuse material, and online drug trade, behind the veneer of encryption-enabled anonymity, the demand to find those using encrypted services for nefarious purposes has also risen. This technical brief aims to explain the core features of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology and

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