Tag: Ethics

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.

Customers Are Central to the Gig Economy. Will We Use Our...

It is all-too-convenient to ignore the fact that the little brightly-coloured delivery executive icon riding through the map on our mobile screens is actually a human being who deserves respectable working conditions, at the very least.

What We Have Learnt From Conducting Telephonic Health Surveys During the...

With all its challenges and breakthroughs over the past two years, telephonic data collection has proven to be a useful alternative for in-person data collection methods, albeit entirely new.

Focusing on the Humans of Fieldwork Can Produce Better Quality Data

Data collection and surveys form the backbone of India’s social and development sectors. At a time when primary research on development issues is a...

Technically Speaking, Can a Journalist Display Your Whatsapp Conversations on TV?

Yet, when shown on TV, the context is often taken away and our words are left bare for the country to see and more significantly, judge. In this light, we ask Apar Gupta—Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation—can a journalist display your Whatsapp conversations on TV?

Technically Speaking, Can You Predict Crime? (Ep. 1)

Researched by Bharath Pottekkat  Edited by Malavika VN  Hosted by Sourya Reddy  With technology rapidly evolving, police forces across the world have been searching for solutions that...

VAR: Does the Scoreline Reflect the Game?

Written by Govind Narayan  The approval and subsequent utilisation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the 2018 FIFA World Cup caused much furore, given...

Painted in Hypocrisy: Outrage Over the Yulin Dog Festival

Written by Shantanu Kishwar Disclaimer: This article contains explicit images that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. The Yulin Dog Festival...

You, Me and Climate Change

Written by Rohan Parikh Our lives revolve around the triumphs of industrial and technological developments. We also witness the widespread environmental degradation as its consequence....