Group Privacy and Data Trusts: A New Frontier for Data Governance?
In the past few years, it has become common knowledge that Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon rely on the exploitation of...
Putting the Athlete First: Data Protection in Sports
Written by Swagam Dasgupta & Sourya Reddy
Fitbit. Apple. Samsung. Boltt. Huawei. What do all these companies have in common? The ability to tell you...
The COVID-19 Battle: Pandemic v/s Privacy
The events following the global spread of COVID-19 have put governments on high alert. This has prompted a variety of initiatives to combat the...
Making a Case for a ‘Goldilocks’ Regulation of the Ed-Tech Sector
As per a 2020 report by the Omidyar Network, the K-12 ed-tech-addressable market in India is projected to be worth $1.7 billion (USD) by...
The Story of CoWIN: How A Vaccination Strategy for Digital India Failed to Bridge...
Why was a wholly digital platform like CoWIN—one that is largely accessible to the technology-owning elite—used for mass vaccine registration?
The Rise of Emotiveillance? Emotion AI and Ed-tech in India
A famous (and controversial) experiment in 1976 by Ekman and Friesen tried to study the facial expressions of individuals in response to certain stimuli....
The Non-Personal Data Report: Kya Karein Kya Na Karein, Ye Kaisi Mushkil Hay
In the first instalment of this two-part series on the Non-Personal Data Report (NPD), we examined the competition concerns that emanate from NPD and...
How Data Protected Policies Can Ensure Migrant Workers’ Welfare
The need of the hour is to create a policy that protects both data and citizens while effectively provisioning services.
Who Needs Consent Anyway? The JPC’s Suggestions Worryingly Expand the Scope of Processing Non-Consensual...
With the Parliamentary Committee's draft Data Protection Bill (DPB), not only can individuals' data be used without their consent (non-consensual), but data that the...
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Investigating the Logistics of Surveillance in India
Written by Anupriya Nair
A report from the Reuter’s Institute found that at least 55% of English-language news readers in India are afraid of expressing...
