Finance Act 2020, came up with the provision to expand the existing scope of equalisation levy to the non-resident e-commerce operators. This provision was added to the Finance bill at the last minute without any notice or any reference either in the original bill or in the union budget speech of the Finance Minister. Due […]
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“It takes more than one gender to have gender inequality; and more than one gender to work towards justice.” In their introduction to Data Feminism, researchers Catherine D’ Ignazio and Lauren Klein elucidate the need to look at data inclusively. Using the theories of intersectional feminists across decades, the duo of MIT professors shed light
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With increasing reliance on data-driven solutions to man’s everyday problems and increased automation of everyday activities, the digital and the human are entwined. These information systems are placed in charge of performing human tasks and/or are used to guide human actions based on its decision- all done in an attempt to increase ‘efficiency’. We often
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On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark judgement in the Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited case — commonly referred to as Schrems II after the primary complainant, Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems. This case is a follow up to Schrems I, in which the
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In line with the American development, the Committee of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament came up with a report to curb the proliferation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The legislators proposed to break encryption in order to trace the originator. This move albeit well-intentioned is likely to do more harm than good.
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Among the many epiphanies one has had owing to the COVID19 pandemic, the spike in the knowledge or awareness of the amount of data pertaining to citizens that a Government has the ability to handle has been a common one. Though citizens are often willing participants in efforts aimed at better governance, they are also
The draft Non-Personal Data (“NPD”) governance framework envisages three key roles in the ecosystem i.e. data principal (to whom the data relates to), data custodian (undertakes collection, storage, processing and use of NPD) and data trustees (through which data principal/community will exercise its rights). Data trustees have been constituted for the purpose of exercising rights
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The Dialogue, on July 31, concluded the first, in a series of Virtual Consultations on Non-Personal Data (NPD) Governance with close to 100 participants. The event included representatives from leading think tanks and civil society organizations, law firms, businesses, industry bodies, researchers. There were five panels that were thematically arranged for deeper discussions on the
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