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Encryption tech: Securing healthcare in the digital age
Despite overwhelming evidence on how encryption can enable better security for health data, its storage and disclosure, the Indian encryption debate is headed in the opposite direction.
In the Digital Age, Here’s How Encryption is Protecting Your Privacy
As we bravely enter the digital corridors of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Pranav Tiwari and Shruti Shreya of The Dialogue explain why encryption is vital to protecting both the interests of both the citizen and the sovereign.
The importance of the privacy of our health data
Highlighting the variety of ways in which health data can be exploited, Kazim Rizvi, Founder, The Dialogue and Gautam Kathuria, Research and Engagement Associate, The Dialogue emphasise that building a system which prioritises transparency
Technical and governance standards for healthcare data
The conundrum when it comes to health data is between the public benefit aspect of aggregated, anonymised health data, and individual privacy.
RBI’s oversight framework for digital payments is a myopic approach towards regulation
Over the past couple of years, the digital payment sector has grown in leaps and bounds and has allowed seamless delivery of online services and aided in the growth of digital businesses.
Surveillance a massive challenge for mental health, so India needs robust data protection laws
The importance of mental health has been recognised on a global scale, especially since its incorporation in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
भारत का साइबर स्पेस दुनिया के बाक़ी देशों के मुक़ाबले कितना सुरक्षित?
Chinese App Ban Signals The Need For An Advanced Cyber-Security Regime
Repeated onslaught on Chinese apps is a repercussion to the skirmishes on the line of actual control.
Non-personal data framework premature: Startups, tech groups to govt committee
The idea of a non-personal data governance framework and a regulator for the same may be “premature and not entirely necessary” in India as of now as the country is yet to have a personal data protection regime in place, startups and tech policy bodies have said in their submissions to the nine-member non-personal data governance committee.
Medicines at a keyboard’s click
In his speech on Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the National Digital Health Mission. The mission proposes to create a digital platform that will revolutionise healthcare and improve access by leveraging technology.
Giving MSMEs the right push: Atmanirbharta is possible only by addressing historical barriers
The sector is, thus, staring at massive unemployment, only to worsen the unemployment problem, which was already at a 45-year high prior to the shutdowns and the lockdowns.
The Need To Relook At The Equalisation Levy 2020
Earlier in March, before the entire nation went into the first phase of lockdown, Finance Act 2020 (“the Act”) came into effect which proposed several tax measures in order to fight against the pandemic including Section 153(iv) which added section 165A in the Finance Act 2016 and imposed an equalization levy at 2% on the non-resident e-commerce operators.
