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Lessons from US response to cyber attacks
- November 01, 2018
Publicly attributing the attacks to a state or non-state actor is vital for building a credible cyber deterrence strategy.
Read more →Conceptualizing an International Security Regime for Cyberspace
- October 26, 2018
This paper was published as part of the Briefings from the Research and Advisory Group (RAG) of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) for the Full Commission Meeting held at Bratislava in 2018.
Read more →Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- October 26, 2018
The dawn of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been celebrated by both government and industry across the globe. AI offers the potential to augment many existing bureaucratic processes and improve human capacity, if implemented in accordance with principles of the rule of law and international human rights norms. Unfortunately, AI-powered solutions have often been implemented in ways that have resulted in the automation, rather than mitigation, of existing societal inequalities.
Read more →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.
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