Kazim Rizvi’s interview by Analytics India Magazine This is the 13th article in the weekly series of Expert’s Opinion, where we talk to academics who study AI or other emerging technologies and their impact on society and the world. This week, we spoke to Kazim Rizvi, Founding Director at The Dialogue. The Dialogue is a […]
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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 and free speech as a right have to be persevered for. We cannot leave it for the State and the platform to serve it to us. The internet, which touches almost all aspects of our lives, is the enabler of not just entertainment, education and business but also of our fundamental right to free
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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 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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Information technology and communication technologies have huge potential to provide new opportunities and challenges for developing economies. Since the wave of liberalisation in the 1990’s, India has harnessed technologies along with vast economic reforms to open up Indian markets to global businesses and investments. However, in the recent past, the Indian leadership’s focus on amplifying
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In the past few decades, the increasingly interconnected nature of the global economy has seen the rise of multinational corporations and brought international regulatory systems into closer interaction with each other. With this increase in global commerce, the world has also witnessed a significant spike in cross-border crimes, prime among which are money laundering and
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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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