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377 Bites the Dust: Unpacking the long and winding road to the judicial decriminalization of homosexuality in India
- October 18, 2018
An informal case comment tracing the journey and assessing the societal implications the recent 377 (Navtej Johar v Union of India).
Read more →Why Data Localisation Might Lead To Unchecked Surveillance
- October 16, 2018
In recent times, there has been a rash of policies and regulations that propose that the data that Indian entities handle be physically stored on servers in India, in some cases exclusively. In other cases, only a copy needs to be stored.
Read more →A trust deficit between advertisers and publishers is leading to fake news
- October 02, 2018
Transparency regulations is need of the hour. And urgently for election and political advertising. What do the ads look like? Who paid for them? Who was the target? How many people saw these advertisements? How many times? Transparency around viral content is also required.
Read more →Cross-Border Data Sharing and India: A study in Processes, Content and Capacity
- September 27, 2018
A majority of criminal investigations in the modern era necessitate law enforcement access to electronic evidence stored extra-territorially. The conventional methods of compelling the presentation of evidence available for investigative agencies often fail when the evidence is not present within the territorial boundaries of the state.
Read more →Artificial Intelligence in the Governance Sector in India
- September 14, 2018
The use of Artificial Intelligence has the potential to ameliorate several existing structural inefficiencies in the discharge of governmental functions. Our research indicates that the deployment of this technology across sub-sectors is still on the horizons.
Read more →India’s post-truth society
- September 12, 2018
The proliferation of lies and manipulative content supplies an ever-willing state a pretext to step up surveillance.
Read more →The Srikrishna Committee Data Protection Bill and Artificial Intelligence in India
- September 03, 2018
Artificial Intelligence in many ways is in direct conflict with traditional data protection principles and requirements including consent, purpose limitation, data minimization, retention and deletion, accountability, and transparency.
Read more →Consumer Care Society: Silver Jubilee Year Celebrations
- August 27, 2018
Arindrajit Basu delivered a talk the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Consumer Care Society (CCS )on 'Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet.
Read more →An Analysis of the CLOUD Act and Implications for India
- August 22, 2018
India houses the second largest population in the world at approximately 1.35 billion individuals. In such a diverse and dense context, law enforcement could be a challenging job.
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