The Privacy Judgment and Financial Inclusion in India
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.
Privacy on the Line: What do Indians think about privacy & data protection?
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.
Moving towards a user data rights regime
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?
The Right to Privacy Judgment: Initial Reflections on Implications for Digital Financial Services
The Supreme Court of India’s judgment on the fundamental right to privacy yesterday, 24 August 2017, speaks directly to the sweeping changes we are witnessing in the way that the State and private companies use citizens’ personal data
Big Data, Financial Inclusion and Privacy for the Poor
Financial inclusion is not good in itself.We value financial inclusion as a means to an end.
Electronic Financial Data and Privacy in India
Earlier this week, the Secretary for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) confirmed that MeitY is set to review the legal framework for digital payments and cybersecurity
Insights on Public Data & Visualisation – In conversation with co-founders of “How India Lives”
In this blog post we share an interview with Avinash Celestine & Avinash Singh, co-founders of How India Lives. Covering an array of topics, they share their experiences and thoughts on handling public data and the nuances of data visualisation that has to be kept in mind when dealing with complex datasets.
“Open data improves the situation from a data privacy perspective” – Interview with S. Anand – Part 2
This post is a continuation from our earlier post about a conversation with S. Anand, Chief Data Scientist, Gramener. The earlier post covered the fundamentals of a good data visualisation and the nuances one has to keen in mind while undertaking such an effort.
“Data can tell different stories, important is, which is the one you want to tell?” – Interview with S. Anand – Part 1
The role of data in shaping public perception and informing policy decisions cannot be emphasised enough. Given the shift towards increasing digitisation and an influx of data points that is now available in the public domain,
