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India’s new foreign policy to dictate diverse aspects of foreign trade

Leave a Comment / Kazim Rizvi /

India is proactively shaping the international agenda on a wide array of issues in the post-COVID world and this is very much evident in its new foreign policy, which is a wide-ranging legislation. Kazim Rizvi, Founding Director, The Dialogue, believes that the government should prioritize some areas, including MSME and infrastructure in its foreign trade […]

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Does The Traceability Requirement Meet The Puttaswamy Test?

Leave a Comment / Kazim Rizvi, Shivam Singh /

1. Introduction Encryption technology has popularly been used for varied purposes including secure communication. This allows for individuals to communicate amongst each other without anyone else being able to monitor the content of such conversations. This, thus, keeps such conversations even outside the purview of Law Enforcement Agencies (‘LEAs’). This preserves the privacy of the

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Equalisation levy 2020 — looking at India’s digital tax

Ayush Tripathi, Kazim Rizvi /

The Finance Act 2020 came up with several new tax provisions, one of which expanded the scope of 2016 equalisation levy to include e-commerce transactions. The Act introduced Section 153(iv), which added Section 165A to the Finance Act 2016 to put an equalisation levy charged at 2% on the non-resident e-commerce operators. This levy was

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Why diluting internet safe harbour laws threatens both child safety & user privacy

Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari, Shruti Shreya /

The internet has always been envisioned as a platform to democratise public spaces by bringing more voices to the table and transform how interactions or businesses are conducted. The rapid adoption of internet-based technologies, however, has not just created opportunities but has also posed challenges requiring urgent and strategic resolution. With vices such as Child

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Is Femtech empowering women or commodifying them?

Shefali Mehta /

The concept of ‘Femtech’—or technology “which addresses women’s biological needs”—is so interlinked with the women’s health apps, that the term itself is credited to the Danish entrepreneur Ida Tin, the founder of “Clue”, a period and fertility management app. As with the penetration of technology into any sector, women’s health is experiencing a massive boom

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Outlook 2021: Designing data governance policies to promote domestic startups

Karthik Venkatesh, Kazim Rizvi /

The past year has seen several changes within the startup ecosystem, be it in terms of the increased reliance of digital services by the consumer base, or making sense of varied government policies that are regulating the ecosystem. In sectors such as edtech, fintech, ecommerce, the pandemic made digital the new normal as the world

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