The Future of Finance Initiative seeks to identify and address new challenges for policy and regulation in India given the waves of digital innovation currently sweeping financial services. Our work in this initiative studies the impacts of digitisation and technological innovation in Indian finance, leading from the consumer perspective on these issues.
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The effectiveness of a future Indian data protection regime would hinge largely on the capacity and approach to supervision and enforcement. The paper discusses some novel ideas to guide the enforcement of a data protection regime.
Data and trends of digital payments in India.
The harvesting of 50 million Facebook users’ data for Trump’s presidential campaign underscores new challenges for data protection.
This blog post does two things. It explains why data privacy matters and why global developments – particularly changes in the law – are going to make it matter.
In this document, we present our responses to the public consultation on the White Paper which is based on our broader approach on data protection. This approach looks past a consent-led approach to data protection, and seeks to embed a bundle of rights for all individuals with respect to their personally identifiable data that apply even where consent has been validly obtained for data collection
These avoidable implementation challenges on account of Aadhaar can be significantly resolved by a clear legal articulation of permissible uses of Aadhaar through suitable amendments.
Technology promises to overcome traditional barriers to financial inclusion, in particular by harnessing insights from consumers’ personal data. However, use of personal data creates new risks for consumers.
Technology promises to overcome traditional barriers to financial inclusion, in particular by harnessing insights from consumers’ personal data. However, use of personal data creates new risks for consumers.
We met Sulekha[1] in a village in Uttarakhand. She was talking about the information she considered most important to her: her ration card, Aadhaar card, NREGA job card and her phone number.
The collection and use of personal data in order to deliver public and commercial services is now routine in India. For a country with large digital ambitions, one of the key questions will be: How should we think about regulating the use of Indians’ personal data?
In all our research efforts, we strive to maintain an independent voice that speaks for the low-income household and household enterprises. Our ability to perform this function is significantly enhanced by our commitment to disseminate as a pure public good, all the intellectual capital that we create.
