Latest posts
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Searching for a room of one’s own in cyberspace: Datafication and the global feminisation of privacy
Article by Visiting Professor Anja Kovacs.
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New Data Architectures in Brazil, China, and India: From Copycats to Innovators, towards a post-Western Model of Data Governance
Paper by CyberBRICS Director Luca Belli, published at the Indian Journal of Law and Technology.
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An Analysis of India’s New Data Empowerment Architecture
Chapter by CyberBRICS Fellow Smriti Parsheera in the book “Emerging Trends in Data Governance”.
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Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India
By Smriti Parsheera (CyberBRICS Fellow)1 The book Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India brings to light the complex interactions between the fields of public health and privacy, placing them in the context of current developments in India. This includes the developments around the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ongoing…
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Understanding state-level variations in India’s digital transformation
Paper by CyberBRICS Fellow Smriti Parsheera, published at the African Journal of Information and Communication
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India’s Policy Responses to Big Tech: And an Eye on the Rise of ‘Alt Big Tech’
Smriti Parsheera The term ‘big tech’ offers a helpful and widely used label for describing the world’s most powerful technology companies. The challenges posed by big tech across the domains of competition, innovation, human rights, and social and political impact are real and immediate. So is the need for building more effective checks against them.…
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Cinderella’s shoe won’t fit Soundarya: An audit of facial processing tools on Indian faces
Gaurav Jain & Smriti Parsheera The increasing adoption of facial processing systems in India is fraught with concerns of privacy, transparency, accountability, and missing procedural safeguards. At the same time, we also know very little about how these technologies perform on the diverse features, characteristics, and skin tones of India’s 1.34 billion-plus population. In this paper,…


