Internet Governance Blog
Divergence between the General Data Protection Regulation and the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
- February 21, 2020
Content takedown and users' rights
- February 14, 2020
After Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable debate around how the judgement has changed this regime: specifically about (i) whether originators of content are entitled to a hearing, (ii) whether Rule 16 of the Blocking Rules, which mandates confidentiality of content takedown requests received by intermediaries from the Government, continues to be operative, and (iii) the effect of Rule 16 on the rights of the originator and the public to challenge executive action. In this opinion piece, we attempt to answer some of these questions.
Read more →Comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
- February 12, 2020
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.
Read more →Automated Facial Recognition Systems and the Mosaic Theory of Privacy: The Way Forward
- January 02, 2020
Arindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the third of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial Recognition Systems?
Read more →Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS): Responding to Related Privacy Concerns
- January 02, 2020
Arindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the second of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial Recognition Systems?
Read more →Decrypting Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS) and Delineating Related Privacy Concerns
- January 02, 2020
Arindrajit Basu and Siddharth Sonkar have co-written this blog as the first of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title: Is there a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy from Data Aggregation by Automated Facial Recognition Systems?
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