The Dialogue conducted a webinar on ‘The Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways (PAPG) guidelines’ on March 30, 2021, to spur discussion and progressive discourse around the issues surrounding the PAPG guidelines put forward by the RBI, and evaluate the optimal policy measures that can be put in place to address these challenges in the Indian […]
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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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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Privacy forms an intrinsic part of our everyday life. So much so – that the Supreme Court declared it to be a Fundamental Right under the Indian Constitution. The Government too is working to legislate a Data Protection Law to better protect our privacy. As we transact on digital platforms it is the encryption technology
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It is only in the 68th year that the Republic of India recognised right to privacy as a fundamental right. In 2017, Supreme Court while adjudging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar Act, 2016 ruled informational privacy as an integral part of an individual’s privacy. It urged the government to put in place a robust data
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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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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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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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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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