scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, March 15, 2026
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.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

Follow us

Copyright © 2025 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.