Keshav Maheshwari Introduction: A Crisis of Confidence in a Cashless Revolution India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) stands as a monumental achievement in public digital infrastructure, a system that has dramatically lowered transaction costs and brought millions into the formal financial fold. However, a recent and unforeseen development threatens the very trust upon which this revolution […]
Category: Privacy Law
Kinjal Ahuja and Ashish Rawat “We cannot have a system, or even the appearance of system, where surveillance is secret, or where decisions are made about individuals by a Kafkaesque system of opaque and unreviewable decision-makers” – Reyna and Farley, 2006, p.43 Introduction India’s first dedicated data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, […]
Soujanya Boxy Introduction The accelerating pace of technological advancements raises growing concerns over user autonomy and data privacy, particularly with the increasing power of tech giants to collect and use user data. Tech giants recognise user data as the fuel for their revenue growth. However, in their pursuit of being data monopolies, a critical question […]
Sankalp Srivastava Introduction This article is written broadly in the context of the documented categories of misuse of the Aadhaar regime to impose mandatory authentication by private players and the State. For instance, private service providers continue to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing their services. In many cases, it goes unreported, but there are documented […]
Tanish Arora Introduction The concept of the right to be forgotten was recognised in French jurisprudence, where it was known as ‘le droit a l’oubli’, which refers to the “ability of individuals to limit, de-link, delete, or correct the disclosure of personal information on the internet that is misleading, embarrassing, irrelevant, or anachronistic.” This right […]
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