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To keep up with tech and regulate WhatsApp & Amazon, India must adopt ‘futures thinking’

Harsh Vardhan Pachisia -
With the Indian govt's Personal Data Protection Bill only outlining broad principles governing data, the role of the Data Protection Authority becomes even more important.

Look at the numbers: Why Digital India can’t afford internet shutdowns with slowing economy

Prateek Waghre -
The Modi government imposed internet shutdowns in Kashmir, Assam and Uttar Pradesh this year. From 2012-2017, India lost $3 billion because of these shutdowns.

Small businessmen will soon get loans based on data, not balance sheets: Nandan Nilekani

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Nandan Nilekani says under the new system, Account Aggregator, owners will be able to use bank statements, tax returns, home loan repayment records to avail of short-term loans.

The era of data-globalism is over. Where does this leave India?

Rudra Chaudhuri -
India is the world’s largest open data market. Yet, Indian organisations figure nowhere among the top data-based technology companies in the world.

For the first time, India has a genome database. But are we ready to use it?

Shruti Sharma -
In India, where caste, sex, religion and colour-based discrimination is so common, genetic discrimination can be another ticking bomb.

Forget Modi’s ‘justice for all’ mission, Indian judiciary must do justice to its data first

Rangin Pallav Tripathy -
Indian judiciary needs to walk out of Middle Ages to become a 21st century democratic institution. But it won’t until we are stuck with poor data.

As a creator of Cambridge Analytica, I fell for Facebook’s call to ‘move fast, break things’

Christopher Wylie -
Facebook is a doorway into minds of Americans. Mark Zuckerberg left that door wide open for Cambridge Analytica, Russians, and who knows how many others.

Liberal democracy is under threat from digitisation as govts, tech firms gain more power

Terri Chapman -
Democracy is not only about individual voice or decision-making by majority, it is just as much about limiting the power of individuals.

‘Digital colonialism’: Why countries like India want to take control of data from Big Tech

Jacqueline Hicks -
India has been the most vocal supporter for data localisation, promoting its own regulation as 'a template for the developing world'.

Facebook counters Mukesh Ambani’s claim that ‘data is the new oil’

PTI -
Facebook said the value of data does't come from 'hoarding' or trading it, and pitched for a structure that respected an individual's rights over their information.
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Opinion

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Shabnoor Rahman -
Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

More and more POCSO cases are being settled by victim-accused marriages

UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

Saksham Thakur -
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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