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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicData In Law

Topic: Data In Law

The Global Technology Summit 2020, co-hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs, will convene industry experts, policymakers, and scholars from all over the world to deliberate over five days on five comprehensive sub-themes surrounding the Geopolitics of Technology. ThePrint is a digital partner.

This series of articles is a part of the Summit.

Govts want backdoor entry to encrypted WhatsApp texts. It can also be backdoor for hackers

Tarunima Prabhakar -
Celebrity WhatsApp texts have been flashed on TV ever since the Sushant Singh Rajput case took over news. Govts do not need backdoor access to it.

No law for bio emergencies, no strategy for next pandemic – India must learn from Covid

Shruti Sharma -
When the Covid pandemic struck, India ran to hire epidemiologists, make a plan and set up committees. That’s a glaring public health gap.

Banking to groceries — Data Protection Authority has multi-sector role, but must be efficient

Shivangi Tyagi -
We need to carefully consider how the DPA can effectively operationalise different aspects of its mandate with the least amount of state capacity.

Yes Bank, PNB crises shows why RBI needs a data-first approach to supervision

Rajesh Bansal -
To expect the RBI to effectively monitor multiple aspects of the banks and other regulated entities is a tall order.

If India wants cross-border data, it must reform its laws and surveillance strategies

Smriti Parsheera -
Any discussion on personal data access in India necessarily requires a reiteration of the Supreme Court's Puttaswamy verdict, which declared privacy a fundamental right.

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Opinion

The K in K-Pop is already silent. And that’s OK

Bloomberg Opinion -
Audience data shows there are now more fans outside South Korea than at home. Like hip hop, there’s no reason why K-Pop can’t have a similarly inclusive trajectory while staying true to its core.

Hindu temples belong to deities & devotees, not the govt. Himachal Pradesh HC got it right

Ladakh to Mizoram—India’s border regions are unstable. We need a new internal security policy

Economy

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Udit Bubna -
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

Shekhar Gupta -
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.

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