Tag: Big Tech
Social Impact Studio: How Big Tech Creates Policy with Devika Malik...
Welcome to Session One of the Social Impact Studio!
We live in an age where technological solutions have become central to our societies. From ordering...
Beyond Pegasus: The Story of State Surveillance in India
Not every citizen or institution is surveilled in the same manner, or for the same reasons. Categorising government surveillance into ‘Big Fish’, ‘Small Fish’, and ‘Dark Modes’ outlines how each type of surveillance seriously damages India's democracy.
Data Cheque Point: How Paying People For Data Remains A Fever...
Compensation for users based on their data points becomes an unnecessary hurdle to cross — mainly because the limitations of such a model would reap more costs than guaranteed benefits.
Technically Speaking, What Can We Learn from Australia’s Move to Regulate...
Hosted by Aarathi Ganesan
Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal
For the past three years, Australia has been ground-zero for Big Tech regulation, especially in the battle between...
Technically Speaking, Why Did Facebook Ban News in Australia? with Peter...
Hosted by Aarathi Ganesan
Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal
On February 18th, a couple of weeks ago, Australians woke up to find that they could not access...
Rethinking Data Ownership: Should Big Tech Pay Users For Their Data?
By Atri Mukherjee
After a long day of work, you log on to Facebook or Instagram to catch up with trends within your digital circles....
Building (Anti)trust: Can Competition Law Protect Us From Big Tech’s Harms?
Competition law has been in the news recently. After over a year-long investigation, the US Justice Department finally filed a much-anticipated lawsuit against Google...
The Non-Personal Data Report: Do We Really Need Another Data Regulator?
This article is the first instalment of a two-part series by Mohit Chawdhry of Esya Centre on the new government-led regulatory framework proposed in...