INTRODUCTION The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance (the Committee) recently released its 53rd report on ‘Anti-Competitive Practices by Big Tech Companies’ (the Report). Thereafter, the MCA constituted a new committee to, among other things, analyse the need for a new ex-ante framework for digital markets and draft a new DCA. These developments come at a […]
As the PDP Bill was withdrawn from the parliament during the monsoon session of 2022 to introduce the new comprehensive data protection bill, through this paper, we highlight the concerns with the envisioned Data Protection Authority within the previous versions of the Bill to, in turn, inform the new bill. The PDP Bill provided a
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Overview of the Programme Open Loop is launching a new policy prototyping project intended to guide and enable companies in India to implement the AI principle of human centricity, as enshrined in the national AI principles of India, and in a way that accounts for local and regional cultural factors with an emphasis on stakeholder
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This research brief has been formulated with the following objectives to summarise key amendments proposed by the Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and analyse it. It traces the evolution of these changes over the past four years by looking at previous iterations of the Bill and recommendations of experts and provide recommendations on changes that would
About the series: There have been three significant efforts to formulate a bill so far, with the most recent one being the (Draft) Data Protection Bill of 2021 (DPB 2021) proposed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee. For stakeholders like data fiduciaries, data processors, data principals and other policy actors, DPB 2021 currently serves as the
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Given the rise in online harms, the MeitY introduced the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 in February 2021. While many provisions addressed some of the safety challenges, the lack of public consultation obviated the Rules to resolve the primary concerns. Towards this, The Dialogue in collaboration with Internet and
IT RULES, 2021: A REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY Read More »
About the White Paper: The Reserve Bank of India mandated the deletion of card-on-file data by merchants and PA/PGs. Industry bodies and civil-society organisations gave inputs seeking an extension of this deadline in December last year, including The Dialogue and Deepstrat which published a paper outlining the challenges associated with rushed compliance. The RBI, taking
With the increase in the perpetration of cybercrimes like fake news proliferation, child sexual abuse material, and online drug trade, behind the veneer of encryption-enabled anonymity, the demand to find those using encrypted services for nefarious purposes has also risen. This technical brief aims to explain the core features of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology and
Technical Brief: Analysing the Technical Workarounds to End-to-end encryption Read More »
