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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Click here to access the primer on consumer data regulation. The use of personal data by government and private service providers in their interactions with individuals is becoming ubiquitous in India. Service providers are able to collect and process larger volumes and richer varieties of personal data, such as from utilities payments, social media and e-commerce […]
Primer on Consumer Data Regulation - 4th Dvara Research Conference
4th Dvara Research Conference - April 5-6, 2019
This post provides a brief overview of the gender gap in technology in India.
Learnings from the European context.
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.
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.
