The post gives an overview of the gender gap in access and usage of financial services in India and the landscape of digital financial services.
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The post gives an overview of the gender gap in access and usage of financial services in India and the landscape of digital financial services.
In this document, we present our comments on the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 (hereafter “the draft Bill”) in response to the call for comments from the public by MEITy (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, 2018)
Comments to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy) on the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018
The heady optimism following the judgment is beginning to wane in the absence of a practical law that enforces the rights it asserted.
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.
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.